Example sentences of "as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no such thing as sexing a grape . |
| 2 | ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 3 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 4 | Where appropriate , pointing to the area on one 's own body is helpful or using visual aids , which can be as simple as drawing a diagram while explaining the location of the part . |
| 5 | Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult , but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object . |
| 6 | Pay attention to plants and flowers and make sure that you have your lighting on dimmer switches so that you can dim it right down for dining as well as drawing a veil over any kitchen clutter . |
| 7 | But he continued to broadcast and write a weekly column for the Armagh Gazette as well as completing a book of rural tales , And the Band Played On , published by Friar 's Bush Press . |
| 8 | The multiple choice format can , in this case , be thought of as demanding a similar sort of thinking to that required when checking an answer obtained by measurement or calculation to see if it is sensible . |
| 9 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 10 | Haines was a strange mixture , a man with a romantic vision for the future of the first conquest of Queen Victoria 's reign , a skilful politician amongst Arabs but not amongst his fellow-countrymen , with a sailor 's practicality in such matters as building a town but not in administration . |
| 11 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 12 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 13 | There seemed to be an unspoken acceptance by hon. Members that the present system was less than satisfactory , but that we must avoid at any cost anything as dangerous and revolutionary as suggesting a change . |
| 14 | However , close examination of this mosaic , as well as suggesting a surprisingly close relationship with other pavements in the region ( pls. 30 and 34 ) , does reveal some features held in common with the mosaics at North Hill . |
| 15 | The company operates a full electric submersible pump repair shop and is currently in the process of installing ESP 's state-of-the-art testing equipment in the facility in Riyadh , as well as mobilising a field staging camp and storage yard near the oil field in the desert community of Hawtah . |
| 16 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 17 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 18 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 19 | It is difficult to see any reason why in civil proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination should be exercisable so as to enable a litigant to refuse relevant and even vital documents which are in his possession or power and which speak for themselves . |
| 20 | He referred me to President of India v. La Pintada Compania Navigacion S.A. [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 where , in declining to extend the common law so as to enable a plaintiff to recover interest by way of general damages , the House of Lords were influenced by the fact that the legislature had twice intervened to deal with entitlement to interest . |
| 21 | If it will please you To show us so much gentry and goodwill As to expand your time with us awhile For the supply and profit of our hope , Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 22 | GUIL : And receive such thanks as fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 23 | It was played in October , and during their visit Chapman and his party went to Hampden Park and to the Glasgow Industrial Exhibition at Kelvin Park , as well as enjoying a sing-song at the Alhambra Music Hall . |
| 24 | On the plus side , you will be saving on travel and other work-related expenses as well as enjoying a welcome reduction in tax . |
| 25 | From the Merovingians to the Habsburgs , European dynasties regarded themselves , and were regarded by their subjects , as enjoying a unique mandate from ‘ on high ’ . |
| 26 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 27 | A ; Oh for heavens sake where the heck is this bus honestly it 's about as rare as seeing a three legged duck walking along the High Street with a shopping trolley . |
| 28 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 29 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 30 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |