Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short term , the Commission will concentrate its efforts largely on biomass , biofuels , energy-from-waste , wind power and small hydro power , with funds available for such purposes as drawing up national inventories on the use of renewables , creating uniformity of standards and implementing a statistical recording system . |
| 2 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 3 | So doing the lectures not only benefits the children , it also makes me valuable contacts , as well as building up my confidence ; I never had much of that until I started training Dawn . |
| 4 | Palmer also mapped out DEC 's plans to work more closely with its major partners Ing C Olivetti & Co and Microsoft Corp , as well as building up its systems integration side of its business . |
| 5 | Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate . |
| 6 | As well as building up a picture of the surroundings , the lateral line allows shoaling fish , such as herrings , to maintain their position in the group . |
| 7 | It is likely that there would be significant opposition to the idea that local taxes should bear the burden of redeeming the old debt as well as building up new capital . |
| 8 | Nutritionally , infant formulas are almost identical to breast milk , although , as Dr Peter Sullivan points out , as far as building up your baby 's resistance to infection goes , they have absolutely no effect . |
| 9 | Scale can also lead to expensive and time-consuming maintenance problems in dishwashers , blocking spray nozzles as well as building up on heating elements and causing their premature failure . |
| 10 | If we may imagine bat brains as building up an image of the world analogous to our visual images , the pulse rate alone seems to suggest that the bat 's echo image might be at least as detailed and " continuous " as our visual image . |
| 11 | The rough texture of loofahs help buff away dry , dead skin as well as pepping up your circulation . |
| 12 | They are not so much ‘ on the march ’ — where are their jackboots , eagle emblems and other traditional paraphernalia ? — as shambling along in worry or despair . |
| 13 | Does the constant talk of a ‘ kick start to the economy ’ mirror Britain as clapped out old BSA ? |
| 14 | Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God . |
| 15 | Ullman 's general approach suggests that these could well be relatively low-level processes , not requiring cerebral computations ( as puzzling out the correct values of the variables in the formula for Snell 's law presumably does ) . |
| 16 | Jaq wondered how much effort of will it had cost her to resist ultimate , engulfing pleasure so as to gasp out a question or two to her tormenter and enchanter . |
| 17 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 18 | As pointed out earlier , the ‘ social causes ’ argument was another major plank of public debate about the 1980–1 riots , particularly in relation to the highly politicized issue of unemployment . |
| 19 | As pointed out in Chapter 3 the difference between ourselves and chimpanzees does not lie within the cell types but in their spatial organization . |
| 20 | As pointed out above , firstly , their budgets only cover a limited range of services and , secondly , unlike DHAs , GPs can select which patients to take on and thus include in their budget . |
| 21 | As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration . |
| 22 | ‘ displays any writing , sign or other visible representation which was threatening , abusive or insulting ’ As pointed out , this part of the offence will be rather rare . |
| 23 | In turn , as pointed out earlier , British domination contributed to the underdevelopment of the colonies by the drain of surpluses , destruction of indigenous industries , and other means . |
| 24 | As pointed out before , in Namibia the press is largely in private hands . |
| 25 | As pointed out before , in Namibia the press is largely in private hands . |
| 26 | As pointed out earlier , some schools did visit project schools in order to gain insights of use in planning their own proposals , and some were subsequently visited by yet other schools . |
| 27 | As pointed out above , it is known that extensive interconnection is a characteristic of the neocortex : thus the great majority of the input to any cell comes from other parts of the neocortex itself , and similarly most of the outputs go to other parts of the neocortex . |
| 28 | Moreover , as pointed out by Watkins L.J . |
| 29 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 30 | To localise a region of dysfunction , therefore , is not to localise a function , as pointed out by Hughlings Jackson in the nineteenth century . |