Example sentences of "[to-vb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade sanctions had to remain as promoters of environmental protection , he argued . |
| 2 | the Board considers the B R employe employees who transfer involuntary involuntarily to the private sector should return an indefensible right to remain as members of the joint industry |
| 3 | So compared with the commercial clout of the continental magnums , they 'll just have to be satisfied to remain as miniatures . |
| 4 | Randomisation therefore resulted in 89 eligible patients allocated to prompted care and 92 allocated to remain as controls ( fig 3 ) . |
| 5 | Labour will establish mortgage rescue schemes throughout the country , enabling home buyers to remain as tenants or part-owners . |
| 6 | The Budget Planner ( pages 120–25 ) may help you to work out whether the various luxuries and plans of which nearly all of us dream could be affordable or are destined to remain as fantasies . |
| 7 | The court can remit the case back to the sheriff with a direction that he should remit it to the licensing board to reconsider their decision ( R. W. Cairns Ltd. v. Busby East Church Kirk Session , cit. ) or remit the case to the sheriff to proceed as accords ( Collins v. Hamilton District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 230 ) . |
| 8 | Evidently there are some constraints on what the blackbirds will learn to treat as enemies . |
| 9 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 10 | First , in many cases the previous foreign owners of those companies which passed into local ownership , either private or state , were invited to continue as managers for which they received a management fee . |
| 11 | Tom Watson , for example , resigned from a Kansas City Club because a Jewish businessman was unsuccessful with his application for membership , while the Augusta National has been obliged to accept a black member in order to continue as hosts of The Masters . |
| 12 | Due to recent staff changes the only existing senior staff who are members of the Council are Dr Ivor Davies , Director of Planning and Mr Robin Barratt , Director of National Sports Training Centres and they will now cease to attend as members . |
| 13 | Nagorny Karabakh leaders boycotted the meeting of the Rome commission ( which included representatives from Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , Sweden , Turkey and the USA ) , having been invited to attend as observers . |
| 14 | Japan , Canada and Russia are to attend as observers . |
| 15 | The advantage of the local authority course is that the information relates to what is available in your locality , and people are welcome to attend as couples or singly . |
| 16 | Concerts such as this , at which distinguished alumni return to Bristol to perform as soloists , are set to become a regular feature of University life . |
| 17 | Moreover , popular schools would seldom be able to accommodate as pupils the children of all parents who wanted to send them there . |
| 18 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 19 | The popular press had laid the blame for the evolution of the larger lout squarely at their feet ; pushing nablabs would allow them to appear as capitalists with a social conscience . |
| 20 | Indeed , often when it is adopted the final accounts are adjusted to appear as accruals accounts . |
| 21 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 22 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 23 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 24 | They were partially successful in 1907 , when unmarried women ratepayers were allowed to stand as candidates . |
| 25 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 26 | He replaced seven ministers , most of whom were thought to be planning to stand as candidates in the legislative elections due in the first half of 1992 . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 28 | Article eight B two provides that citizens of the union shall have the right to vote and to stand as candidates in elections to the European parliament . |
| 29 | Most of these girls were not fiancées but daughters , come to join their parents ; the internal examinations were used to claim that they were too old to come as dependants . |
| 30 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |