Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 Out of doors , if it is being chased by a rival cat , a dog , or some human enemy , it will try , as always , to scamper up a wall or a tree , using its non-existent claws to cling to the surfaces as it leaps upwards .
2 It 's a privilege to meet with the students as they seek God 's direction for the future .
3 It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland .
4 Corbett dismounted slowly , ordering Ranulf to look after the horses as he went to meet the chamberlain , who had come out to greet him .
5 As with any pattern knitting , you must use the claw weights at the edges of the knitting ; Silver and Knitmaster Chunky machines have wide claw weights to hang across the knitting as well .
6 Although the trigger for this phenomenon is unknown , hypobiosis occurs at the start of a prolonged dry season and permits the parasite to survive in the host as arrested L4 instead of maturing and producing eggs which would inevitably fail to develop on the arid pasture .
7 Mr Perez de Cuellar described South Africa 's attempt to interfere with the elections as ‘ highly problematical ’ , and announced new procedures for the vote , over four days beginning on 7 November .
8 In normal circumstances , where this incompatibility did not exist , if the testator had employed a trust clause he would be presumed to have intended the modality attaching to the institution to attach to the substitution as well .
9 David Lawrence is certainly having a lot of work to do in the field as well as bowl , runs a long way , that 's to be better at deep back with square leg , in place of Philip DeFreitas and let Daffy do some running about , he 's just had a drink there .
10 The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects .
11 We 'll move to the m move to vote on the motion as moved by Councillor .
12 The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future .
13 The action was curiously graceful , a two-handed movement which caused both blades to flash in the light as they revolved and reversed .
14 Cashman shouted , ignoring Matt 's hand , walking across the room to lean on the desk as though he was finding it difficult to remain upright without support .
15 Home Office approval for Anna to stay in the UK as the adopted child of the Golders has now been obtained .
16 Most of the well-to-do had departed hurriedly , leaving the resentful lower orders to cope with the French as best they could .
17 Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization .
18 She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed .
19 little support are most affected and we need to er , go back to what Kathleen was saying about education , we need to help young girls get self-confidence , more se , coping skills to deal with these pressures , but also , as other people have said , we need to get the government to look at the fact as , that encourage women to keep smoking and address those issues as well .
20 A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow .
21 It was as though these managers expected motivation to stem from the organisation as opposed to management techniques .
22 On the other hand it is a mistake to think of the Zuwaya as differentiated by class : differences in wealth were not a basis for any marked or self-conscious social discrimination .
23 Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well .
24 It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus .
25 There will be considerable opportunity in this kind of shared activity to talk with the children as they play and for the teacher to discuss the mathematical ideas involved .
26 It may suit some English commentators to think of the IRA as only a terrorist force rather than the Irish Republican Army because the acronym represents the IRA as shadowy forces of savagery and evil , which by definition it is difficult for the civilised good to understand .
27 The meeting urged cadres to work at the frontline as " vanguard models " to demonstrate the " strong leadership provided by the superior socialist system " in triumphing over natural disasters .
28 There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September .
29 One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled .
30 On May 29 , 1990 , the Storting had approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne as well as males .
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