Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 3 | Willy Brandt tried to present his policy as the natural continuation of Adenauer 's : he would reconcile Germany with the East in the same way as the old man had reconciled her with the West . |
| 4 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 5 | MORGAN Grenfell has maintained its position as the top financial adviser for British public takeovers . |
| 6 | At Guinness Publishing , the other Guinness Enterprises company , the ever-popular Guinness Book of Records has maintained its position as the world 's best-selling copyright book . |
| 7 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 8 | In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved . |
| 9 | But the prime minister failed to broaden his alliance as the former Communists of the Democratic party of the Left and the small Republican Party refused to join his administration . |
| 10 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 11 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 12 | If she returned to share her burden as the ‘ Cleveland scapegoat ’ we could all make progress with this very serious issue of child health . |
| 13 | Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face . |
| 14 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 15 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 16 | Kirkbymoorside deserves sympathy for having lost its status as the only town in the country to have so far escaped the painter 's handiwork . |
| 17 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 18 | ( The US government avoided using the word " blockade " at this time , preferring to describe its intention as the " interdiction " of sanctions-breaking . ) |
| 19 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 20 | Such occurrences have been rare at the Masters but we must eliminate them entirely if our patrons are to continue to merit their reputation as the most knowledgeable and considerate in the world . ’ |
| 21 | Throughout the black ‘ homelands ’ and adjacent African territories of modern Southern Africa the station continues to bear its reputation as the beginning of the migrant trail to labour in the ‘ white ’ economy . |
| 22 | For their part , the MRP leaders had presented their movement as the " party of fidelity " ( i.e. fidelity to de Gaulle ) and had , in the end , opposed the first constitutional draft . |
| 23 | Alexei remembered Sidacai 's veiled insolence — the times when he had used his status as the son of a son of Daijin to thwart Burun . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of Jan. 3 reported that Rabin had asserted his role as the Labour Party 's " chief playmaker " to the " evident discomfiture " of Shimon Peres . |
| 25 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 26 | In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar . |
| 27 | Around this time , the scalp 's sebaceous glands start producing less of the oil that provides healthy shine , and hair begins to lose its hue as the production of melanin ( the pigment that also colours skin and eyes ) slows down . |
| 28 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 29 | But we do know God is present , if we have accepted his word as the final authority on his character . |
| 30 | Bales ' ideas have been adapted by a number of British researchers , notably Rackham and Morgan ( 1977 ) , who have used their version as the basis for improving skills in inter-personal relationships . |