Example sentences of "as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 32 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 33 | The aim of the revised features is to up-date the scheme at the same time as maintaining a good balance between technical skills and design with the retention of a grading system . |
| 34 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 35 | He saw himself with almost missionary zeal as a recorder of his surroundings , so as to preserve a record of the remnants of antiquated rusticity which he remembered . |
| 36 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 37 | Claude Simon has also indicated that he considered the causality and confidence of the traditional novel as perpetuating a misrepresentation of reality . |
| 38 | Such developments are perceived by Kamenka and Tay as betokening a shift away from a gesellschaft model of law and society , towards a bureaucratic administrative social and legal order . |
| 39 | He refers to latent inhibition training as producing a CS-US association , the US being described as consisting of ‘ no event ’ ( see also Hall et al . |
| 40 | Solutions of these chemicals were often run into the urethra under considerable pressure and were accepted , by their proponents , as producing a urethritis themselves as part of their cure . |
| 41 | The guitar has a fair amount of natural sustain and the three Chandler pickups emphasise this , as well as producing a warm tone with enough cut to sound through . |
| 42 | In the mass production enterprise the individual worker is dwarfed by the machinery which is experienced as producing a sense of threat and inadequacy , even though , in actuality , the machinery is only a realisation of man 's logical thinking in response to the requirements of high technical efficiency . |
| 43 | Talking of films , Meier is still working on his wild , underground epic , Snowball , as well as producing a new Hollywood movie called MM , about some lass called Marilyn Monroe . |
| 44 | This is because the National Accounts treat the household purchase as self-gratification , but the firm purchase as producing a flow of marketable goods and services . |
| 45 | When the draft report was issued in May , it was universally welcomed as heralding a major step forward in the way that UK listed companies should be run . |
| 46 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 47 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 48 | With their Chargecards you can dial out from almost any phone at the same cost as using a phone box , the cost of the calls being added to your normal bill . |
| 49 | For example , to commemorate a wood anniversary , as well as using a wooden frame , you could make a collage with pressed pieces of bark from a variety of trees . |
| 50 | This just is n't the same as using a notebook in transit . |
| 51 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 52 | The sub-floor must be smooth , level and dry — any damp-proof membrane must be effective , as using a bitumen emulsion does not ensure damp resistance and any dampness would cause expansion of the conditioned wood blocks . |
| 53 | In terms of speed , we found , using the parallel cabling ( and it 's a special cable , so not just any old parallel cable will do ) that response from server to client was as quick as using a native drive . |
| 54 | She investigated both historical and research background as well as using a questionnaire to study the current picture in Edinburgh Schools . |
| 55 | The main aim of all the above would be to ensure that using a microcomputer as a tool becomes as natural as using a telephone or a typewriter . |
| 56 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 57 | They undertook the extensive analysis of various documents , compiled statistics of their own , made use of officially provided statistics and other materials , such as records , participated in community events and organisations , interviewed various members of the community in depth as well as administering a standardised questionnaire to various sets of people . |
| 58 | This is not interpreted so as to compel a solicitor in overseas practice to maintain cover in excess of the current levels prescribed by the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , though local requirements may have that result . |
| 59 | Efficient management includes knowing how to handle people as well as organizing a smooth-running machine . |
| 60 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |