Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 2 | Organic farming is better for wild birds as well as producing healthier food for humans , according to early returns from a three-year study by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 3 | It was still opposed by Danish environmentalists , who claimed that it would affect the salinity of the Baltic Sea by partially blocking the Öresund , as well as bringing greater pollution to the Copenhagen area through increased traffic flows , but supporters of the project said that it would bring new economic activity to the area . |
| 4 | Upon taking office as Prime Minister in October 1948 , Yoshida summarised the priorities of his administration as fostering democracy in Japanese society , encouraging the Japanese economy so as to secure greater self-sufficiency , and restoring Japan 's status in the world . |
| 5 | And there are senses in which this music can be seen as representing wider experiences , of workers particularly , within twentieth-century capitalist society . |
| 6 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 7 | Against this background the Commission has proposed specific measures to make road transport more expensive , primarily by increasing excise duty on fuel , so as to encourage wider use of rail and shipping . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend speak to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor about introducing financial incentives similar to those for unleaded fuel so as to encourage speedier acceptance of a lower-sulphur fuel ? |
| 9 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 10 | Not all go as far as Ales Lederer , the young editor of the dissident magazine Prostor , who declares that ‘ if there is unemployment , even if it is 3m , this is the sign of a healthy economy , for the economy runs itself naturally . |
| 11 | They thought that this could reduce duplication and ensure better utilization of resources as well as guaranteeing greater consistency across different branches of the same service . |
| 12 | So where Schleiermacher had drawn a sharp line between theology and philosophy , rejected metaphysics as an avenue of approaching truth , and stressed consciousness as lying deeper than rationality , Hegel subsumed theology under philosophy , and gave reason the highest place . |
| 13 | Dinosaurs , as well as growing taller , developed a more pronounced downflex to lower their heads closer to the ground for better cropping techniques . |
| 14 | The differences between Reich and Freud are concerned not so much with the desirability of sexual activity in youth so as to avoid later sexual disturbances , and therefore the need for change in the morality of that period , as with the consequences which could be hoped for as a result . |
| 15 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 16 | Governments anxious to reduce socio-economic differences in mortality rates among children have therefore to tackle the problems of housing and urban decay , as well as providing better health services to such families . |
| 17 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 18 | As noted earlier handicap describes the disadvantage resulting from disability or impairment . |
| 19 | Increasing wages so as to give greater net disposable income increases costs on the international market and makes our goods less competitive . |
| 20 | I lay with my limbs stretched out as stiff as though rigor mortis had set in , and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry . |
| 21 | Although all four projects received high scores for their scientific content , PRISMA appears to have suffered from the high costs of its proposed European launch , and MARSNET from uncertainty over US plans for the study of the planet , while STEP was seen by some participants as requiring further technical refinements . |
| 22 | The Council Tax staffing report approved by the Committee on 7 October 1992 included outline proposals for the Control and Collection Sections which were noted as requiring further work . |
| 23 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 24 | However , it may be that once privatised , these pressures are tempered by pressures to show increased profits so as to justify higher dividends and enhance market prices . |
| 25 | We settled into our routine : I walked a dog belonging to a widower who was out at work all day , as well as teaching Didier English ; Jean-Claude was working on the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 26 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |
| 27 | The new XJ 4. litre follows the sales success of the 3. litre model , and it 's aimed at the sportier drivers among Jaguar customers , as well as getting younger drivers behind the famous wheel . |
| 28 | In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure . |
| 29 | There is a good deal of rhetoric in this field , and as regards higher education institutions , the increased ( self- ) interest in mature students has been prompted partly by the decline in the 18-year-old age-group by about one-third between 1982 and 1995 ; although for various reasons that decline does not simply translate into a comparable decline in intake ( Fulton 1981 ) . |
| 30 | I take the law to be that someone mentally unfit may not necessarily be incapable of reaching a rational decision as regards further treatment . |