Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 3 | For example , in the case of starting up a machine at a control panel the operator will be given the instructions and asked to provide a verbal commentary as he actuates the various controls and checks the various indications , this is a ‘ talk through ’ . |
| 4 | A lot falls onto the shoulders of bass-player Cliff , who has to provide the rhythmic muscle as well as carrying the melodies while Tim 's guitar playing wavers from the understated to the basic and only adds to the droning quality of the songs . |
| 5 | A lot falls onto the shoulders of bass-player Cliff , who has to provide the rhythmic muscle as well as carrying the melodies while Tim 's guitar playing wavers from the understated to the basic and only adds to the droning quality of the songs . |
| 6 | It has to resemble the real thing as done in the fields . |
| 7 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 8 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 9 | Before we go into the issues there , I notice that you appear to favour the dry-roasted peanuts as opposed to the more conventional variety of salted peanuts . |
| 10 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 11 | Again , an understanding of encoded texts — the way in which a sender selects and combines signs — is of great importance to the public relations practitioner : a press release written specially for the tabloid sector , for example , may have more chance of being published than a blanket release designed to interest the serious press as well . |
| 12 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 13 | It is true that somebody has to appoint the Chief Inspector as the Lord Chancellor appoints the judges , but other than that there is not , or rather there should not be , any political interest in the functioning of AIB at all . |
| 14 | There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 15 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 16 | A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant . |
| 17 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |
| 18 | of the District Council which happens to meet the same day as the County Council and the Economic Development Panel so if I can get a copy fast enough I will get one over here and that same week it will be formally preserved |
| 19 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 20 | Juliet 's heart seemed to give a little flutter as she answered , ‘ Half-day . |
| 21 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 22 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 23 | And the approach was said to have a huge plus-point as well . |
| 24 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 25 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 26 | He stopped for a red light , prepared to make a right-hand turn as soon as the arrow flicked green . |
| 27 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 28 | Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch . |
| 29 | Whether we should be saying and saying District Council be requested to amend the local plan as suggested in paragraph two four two nine five and then nu number two would be there adding a few words to the original number one . |
| 30 | Are you going to get the same colour as your car then ? |