Example sentences of "as bring [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 2 | Looking after other people 's children can be very rewarding indeed , but it is also hard work and a big responsibility and is not quite the same as bringing up your own children . |
| 3 | As well as bringing up their three children — Andrea , six , Charlotte , five , and Pierre , three — on her own , Caroline , 34 , has become the boss of the eight companies owned by the Italian oil heir . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it might be seen as an opportunity to enhance family life by the more equal opportunities offered to women to take up employment , as well as bringing up a family ; or by the enriched experiences children bring back into the family as a result of their attendance at nursery school or playgroup . |
| 5 | Married after finals Pam has continued research in plant anatomy in collaboration with her husband in England and Australia as well as bringing up a family of three . |
| 6 | She married in 1944 , maintained her writing and research and gained the Doctorat de L'Universite de Paris ( 1948 ) as well as bringing up her two children . |
| 7 | His interest in the emancipation of a class subject , as bringing about an historical synthesis , owes much to Lukács 's version of Marxism . |
| 8 | While both initiatives are seen as bringing about a closer link between assessment and teaching and learning , and place a greater emphasis than hitherto on teacher assessment , Broadfoot points to various tensions and contradictions between these systems of assessment . |
| 9 | Findings include a higher incidence of pre-eclampsia , fetal distress , asphyxia , and Ascher et al ( 1978 ) have implicated increased catecholamine levels ( reflecting the sympathetic hyperactivity associated with anxiety ) as bringing about an increase in maternal blood pressure and a decrease in uterine bloodflow , promoting fetal stressors such as hypoxia and acidosis . |
| 10 | Such invasions were seen as bringing about conflict , sometimes of an extremely violent nature . |
| 11 | At any rate , if an alliance was being formed , it was as heavy going as bringing together two Middle East states . |
| 12 | TITIA Sutherland 's OUT OF THE SHADOWS ( Black Swan £5.99 ) deals tenderly with the relationship of a girl and an ageing woman , as well as bringing in a ghost story and wartime tragedy . |
| 13 | To deny mothers the opportunity to pursue a useful career as well as bring up their children is wasting their talents . |
| 14 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 15 | These emphases , particularly as brought out in the typical case histories in a host of texts , revealed , we may suggest , the fear of masturbation as actually fixed in the minds of middle-class parents , disturbed by their sons ' unwillingness to live by the respectable sexual ideology , and attend to their duties and to future marriage . |
| 16 | The notion of heterodoxy versus orthodoxy as a ‘ motor ’ for modernization is integral to a theoretical genealogy which sees change as brought about by the tension of ‘ ought ’ versus ‘ is ’ , whether in Hegel 's tension between the universal and the particular , jurisprudence 's counterposition of positive law and natural law , or Adorno 's well known ‘ utopian moment ’ . |
| 17 | ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications . |
| 18 | If the map can be represented in raster format ( Chapters 2 and 5 ) then image-processing operations can be used to enhance the map image so as to bring out linear features more clearly , and automatic line-following algorithms can be employed to generate the numerical coordinates of points along the lines . |
| 19 | Similarly the text is written so as to bring out comic connotations of the word fut , the passé simple of the verb " to be " by writing it with a characteristically Anglo-Norman spelling as " " fout " " , recalling foutre . |
| 20 | We used to go to bed earlier the day before , not so much to please mother as to bring to-morrow a bit sooner . |
| 21 | Is there a real distinction between turning off a respirator and letting Dr Carrington die , and injecting him so as to bring about his death ? |
| 22 | These Labour local authorities were developing conscious efforts to alter local economies so as to bring about long-term economic development , through job creation and job enrichment , for the benefit of local workers and the local community . |