Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After emigration , mononuclear phagocytes may remain as immobile tissue macrophages for several months until they are stimulated or activated . |
| 2 | On May 5 Mujjaddedi , who had already indicated that he might remain as interim president for longer than the specified two months , appointed a Cabinet ( most members in an acting capacity ) in a move regarded by some commentators as a violation of the Peshawar Accord . |
| 3 | That , however , is a vague remark ; and must remain as such , because the mechanism by which genes build bodies is one of the great unsolved problems of biology . |
| 4 | In order to head off conflict with Ghana over the replacement , assurances were later given that Quainoo would remain as overall commander , with Dogonyaro in charge of field operations . |
| 5 | Tory MPs have reported that rank and file members are openly questioning whether Mr Major should remain as Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Tory MPs have reported that rank and file members are openly questioning whether Mr Major should remain as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Oh I do n't want as that , I did n't want as that . |
| 8 | Oh I do n't want as that , I did n't want as that . |
| 9 | He said of holy relics : ‘ England is almost the only country in the world where there is not some favourite religious spot where absurd lies , little bits of cloth , feathers , splinters , rusty nails and other invaluable relics are treasured up and in defence of which the whole population are willing to turn out and perish as one man . ’ |
| 10 | An additional strength of CD-I is that the hardware will double as high quality CD-A players . |
| 11 | First such theatre , in a sense reminiscent of premodern art , takes on important ritualistic functions ; the implication is that , in contradistinction to autonomous , modernist theatre , ( postmodern ) theatre itself should double as cultural ritual . |
| 12 | Equally , divisional management could now bargain as stand-alone units , freed from corporate direction . |
| 13 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 14 | Well I think now , in general in in Scotland th the the the drinking license has been different er Hogmanay does not exist as such because |
| 15 | In the same way people mute their criticisms of what others would regard as intolerable housing amenities . |
| 16 | Finally , it is possible to reverse the flow of the argument and consider whether the attention paid to what some will regard as mere wrecks of humanity , quite apart from the treatment of human corpses , is not exaggeratedly sentimental . |
| 17 | Much may hinge upon points that the typical executive might understandably regard as irritating technicalities . |
| 18 | Yet it is arguable that the child 's first experiments with what adults would regard as linguistic deceit are on a causal and behavioural par with the bird 's fraudulent warning cry . |
| 19 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 20 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 21 | Usually organizations and groups have designated leaders but even then it does n't necessarily follow that the official leader will behave as such . |
| 22 | Dogs which reach , say , six months of age without human contact may behave as wild animals . ’ |
| 23 | The second is the size and shape of the potential energy well that determines bond rotation , for without rotation the polymer chains would behave as rigid rods and rubbers , for example , would not exist . |
| 24 | Which only goes to show ( so it is said ) that existential propositions are general propositions , or else they do not qualify as genuine propositions at all . |
| 25 | It must also qualify as one of Britain 's oddest public companies . |
| 26 | Breach of confidence might qualify as unlawful means ( assuming it not to be a tort in itself ) but there has been no subsequent support for Lord Denning M.R. 's suggestion that the concept might extend to ‘ interference with the press . ’ |
| 27 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 28 | IT must surely qualify as ecclesiastical culture-shock to attend the annual assemblies of both Anglicans and Methodists on the same day in different English cities . |
| 29 | However , many IMRO members do name the accounts for whom they want the firm to deal and these accounts can therefore qualify as indirect customers . |
| 30 | Some would qualify as mass media on ‘ message ’ and rapidity grounds , but fail on audience size . |