Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 2 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 3 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 4 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 5 | Secondly , we outline what has become known as the Keynesian theory of national income determination . |
| 6 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 7 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 8 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single vendor solutions . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single-vendor systems . |
| 11 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines 67 . |
| 12 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines . |
| 13 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 14 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 15 | Forced labour was indeed the form taken by the administration 's next major effort to deal with what had become known as the moran problem . |