Example sentences of "as [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 2 | The trail appears to have gone cold and it would be difficult now to resurrect it successfully , but the incomplete notes are available as received if anyone would like to look at them . |
| 3 | " Extent " was regarded as limited if sexual intercourse or other experience beyond kissing and petting had been limited to not more than one partner during lifetime . |
| 4 | Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air . |
| 5 | If the previous state was really as fallen as this , is the whole idea of a Fall illusory ? |
| 6 | If one straight arrow follows another , work as given because you will be transferring stitches in two directions before knitting again and the lace carriage can not transfer in two directions on the same movement . |
| 7 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 8 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 9 | So the key issue here is really the fundamental one involved in the dispute between Keynes and the classical economists : is it adequate to regard certain superficial characteristics of existing wage contracts as given when analysing the consequences of alternative monetary and fiscal regimes ? |
| 10 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher was not considered in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) , though it has been argued elsewhere in this book that there is no reason for refusing to apply the principles of foreseeability as developed since The Wagon Mound . |
| 11 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 12 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 13 | Amiss was as insulted as he was relieved at how little space was given in the newspapers to the injury sustained by J. Amiss , waiter : only two of the papers mentioned his name at all and one of them misspelt it . |
| 14 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 15 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 16 | But he 'll be just as overwhelmed if he becomes Manchester United 's first regular centre back from Ulster since Jackie Blanchflower 's time . |
| 17 | It has been known , but parents who do such a thing are as disliked as they would be in any society , and such marriages are often barren . |
| 18 | Factual content of the whole report is to be treated as disclosed since the Purchaser knows its content at completion . |
| 19 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 20 | From the perceptual point of view , all stressed syllables have one characteristic in common , and that is prominence ; stressed syllables are recognised as stressed because they are more prominent than unstressed syllables . |
| 21 | That definition of ‘ tenant ’ like all the definitions in the Act of 1920 , is to be read as applying except where the context otherwise requires . |
| 22 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every local authority to enforce within their district the provisions of this Act and of the orders made under those provisions , and for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions and such orders as aforesaid as may be necessary to secure observance thereof . |
| 23 | I stood leaning on the staff , grinning and throwing an arm in the air as he approached , but he and his companion never so much as looked as they sped back to Adrar . |
| 24 | It is clear that the complex pattern of symptoms could not be a consequence of just one or two loci of damage within the normal reading system , and Morton and Patterson ( 1980 ) have offered an interpretation in which the disorder is explained as occurring when a number of different loci in the normal reading system are all damaged . |
| 25 | Duress invalidating consent to a contract is regarded as occurring where a party has been imprisoned or threatened with , for example , imprisonment , or violence , or harm to reputation , or criminal prosecution of a spouse . |
| 26 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 27 | Being a notable actress , she is just as compelling when the doubts have been sown : this Elsa , after singing a glorious , apparently contended Third Act duet with Völker 's sovereign Lohengrin , becomes appropriately disturbed and hysterical . |
| 28 | Where roof-spaces are not well ventilated ( as occurs when a roof is reclad with a more windproof and watertight construction ) , the close-textured nature of the concrete tiles which contrasts with the relative porosity of clay tiles may encourage the formation of condensation on their undersides , encouraging dampness and rot in stagnant roof-spaces . |
| 29 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 30 | You can pick up the dog and shake it , or pull on the scruff of its neck as happens when there is a clash over dominancy in the pack situation . |