Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much , therefore , we may feel with the later Romantics that Wordsworth was ‘ a political apostate ’ , his social interests will always remain as evidence of his humanity . |
| 2 | However , this does not mean that they will become invalid — they will remain as evidence of achievement in their own right . |
| 3 | These hospitals would remain as part of the NHS , but would be given the freedom to run themselves . |
| 4 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 5 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 6 | A total of 75 per cent said Mr Lamont should not remain as Chancellor . |
| 7 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 8 | The move follows the establishment of a branch office in Sofia earlier this month , and Frantzen will remain as head of local operations . |
| 9 | Mr Shute is assuming the chairmanship of Ross from Ross Marks , the company 's 37-year-old founder , who will remain as chairman of the consumer electronics operations and a director of the group . |
| 10 | Maurice Saatchi will remain as chairman . |
| 11 | Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate . |
| 12 | ‘ They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 13 | They decided that it was in the best interests of the BBC and its future that John Birt should remain as director general , and gave him their full support . ’ |
| 14 | Chris Patten , architect of Mr Major 's victory , will remain as party chairman despite losing his seat in Bath but will be allowed to attend Cabinet only for party political discussions . |
| 15 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 16 | Gorbachev , for the time being , would remain as President ; but he was to rule through a Council of State on which all the ten participating republics were represented , and management of the economy was to be entrusted to an inter-republican committee headed by the Russian prime minister Ivan Silaev . |
| 17 | An ‘ election ’ in Chile asks simply whether General Pinochet should remain as President . |
| 18 | Bush accepted the resignation " with reluctance , regret , and a sense of personal loss " , and announced that Sununu would remain as counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank until March 1992 , in order to assist with the transition of responsibilities to his successor . |
| 19 | As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests . |
| 20 | Having predicted that Lewis could rule as world champion for some time , Foreman was asked whether he would like to fight him . |
| 21 | It insists , in other words , that they must treat as law what conventions stipulates is law . |
| 22 | He will stay as editor and Lorna Cassie as advertising manager . |
| 23 | Three-quarters of Scotland 's top companies believe the Government has no effective economic policy and the same proportion believe Mr Lamont should not stay as Chancellor , according to a poll by the accountancy firm Pannell Kerr Forster and BBC TV in Scotland . |
| 24 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 25 | Mrs Catherine Eaton said : ‘ I would hope Frank Field can stay as MP . |
| 26 | Mhm so it would double as kind of a suit |
| 27 | Ageing could evolve as part of an optimal life history . |
| 28 | The controversial high-tech pyramid structure at the cliff top entrance to Whitby Spa could disappear as part of plans to improve sign-posting of the complex . |
| 29 | They , they , they exist erm , princ a very common finding in psychoanalysis is that things will , will , will exist as word representations , with no feeling representation , or they wo n't be connected to , to er they 'd be completely isolated . |
| 30 | Certain qualities are in OPPOSITION to others , water can not exist as water and as ice at the same time . |