Example sentences of "as [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reproduction of an historic statue of the Mother of God in the Cathedral , demonstrates a sensitivity to the vibrant traditions of the past , drawing on them so as to enrich ones own faith not only of God 's choice of Our Lady and her example , but also of the many wonderful traditions in the diocese which provides continuity , constantly enriching the present . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're being trained in Scotland as Raiding Forces . |
| 3 | He defined the need for special forces in the area : first as troops for post-occupational duties in captured territories ; second , as ‘ small raiding parties of the thug variety , for which we have L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade and the Special Boat Section ’ ; and finally as raiding parties on a larger scale which was the original purpose in retaining the old Middle East Commando . |
| 4 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 5 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 6 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 7 | In order to avoid false alarms , positions close to heaters and air conditioning outlets should be avoided , as well as cooking areas , garages , bathrooms , shower-rooms or other places where steam , condensation or fumes are present . |
| 8 | In the hands of many such men , ‘ rescue ’ meant a punitive and puritanical regime which reinforced the status of prostitutes as fallen women , though the ostensible aim was rehabilitation . |
| 9 | They intend to run the course as a pay as you play facility , however , they intend to offer a membership scheme so as to accommodate competitions and team matches within the club . |
| 10 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
| 11 | The Council of Europe stayed its hand , and the Seventh Session of the Conference found that by making two small amendments to the service provisions of the 1905 text ( the definition of ‘ autorité compétente ’ in Article 2 , so as to include solicitors ; an addition to Article 3 providing for the supply of two copies of the document to be served ) the Hague text could be made entirely acceptable to the British Government . |
| 12 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 13 | Higher Education is defined so as to include Universities , Central Institutions , Colleges of Education and advanced Further Education . |
| 14 | The rule has been relaxed so as to enable infants to make a binding settlement of their property upon marriage , but only with the sanction of the court . |
| 15 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 16 | The company said it would mean a pay cut of about 10pc , as sacked workers would be rehired at an existing union-agreed ‘ new worker ’ rate . |
| 17 | Part of the output is sold as compounded granules , clear or coloured , and part in the form of small ‘ beads ’ — clear or as dry-coloured blends . |
| 18 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 19 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 20 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 21 | Rank 's Simon and Laura ( 1955 ) pursued a different tack , mocking TV for the phoniness of its images of life through the story of a married couple in a TV soap , who are represented as cooing doves on the screen when in reality they always bicker and squabble . |
| 22 | The slits in the sides of their throats which had originated as filtering mechanisms , were walled with thin blood vessels so that they also served as gills . |
| 23 | Their targets were frequently public houses used as gathering places by the Provisional IRA and the chance of killing co-religionists was small . |
| 24 | Terns , redshanks and sand plovers were also at risk , together with birds accustomed to using the coastal mudflats as resting points on seasonal migrations between Siberia and East Africa . |
| 25 | A mission mounted jointly by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the International Council of Bird Preservation warned on March 14 that hundreds of thousands of migratory birds , which used the beaches , salt marshes and mudflats of the Gulf as resting places , would shortly be at risk as they arrived en route from East Africa to northern Asia and Europe . |
| 26 | Hunger and poverty , the main reasons for their poaching , are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances . |
| 27 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 28 | This largely involves the receiving , processing and responding to planning applications from Local Authorities , as well as maintaining records . |
| 29 | Amdahl claims 60 existing customers of UTS on 5995s , and says it has n't lost a single customer to downsizing — strange given that it is talking up its Sparc systems as rightsizing tools . |
| 30 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |