Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , a mechanism was required to channel funds to the UK as compensation for the effects of CAP , from which other member states benefited disproportionately . |
| 2 | The local creamery refused to accept milk from the area as dust was floating in it . |
| 3 | He still however was in a sufficient bad temper to punch Jocelyn in the mouth as she brought him tea . |
| 4 | The assassins rushed out of the tunnel , their feet ringing on the stones , emerging onto the promontory in time to catch sight of the punt as it rounded a pillar . |
| 5 | In these circumstances staff then employ working norms which serve as rules-of-thumb to impose order on the judgment as to whether action is necessary . |
| 6 | It is because markets are not perfect in reality that companies have power , though in adopting this perspective it is important to guard against the tendency to view divergences from the model as temporary and aberrant rather than as a standard feature of market systems . |
| 7 | It was a scene straight out of one 's worst nightmares , and she had to clutch hold of the door as shock took the strength from her limbs . |
| 8 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 9 | Grey skies failed to cast gloom over the pilgrims as they greeted friends made on previous pilgrimages and settled in their coach seats determined to make the most of their time together . |
| 10 | Floy had said he and Snodgrass would try their best to leave markers on the road as they went , providing that Balor did not catch them at it . |
| 11 | Thomas Cook 's foreign exchange businesses also did well last year , with small businesses using the company to send money around the world as well as the traditional travel cash and travellers cheques operations . |
| 12 | A meeting of the Presidium of the People 's Assembly on July 31 approved a decree allowing meetings and demonstrations by citizens in public places and proposed the creation of a special commission to consider changes to the Constitution as well as a new electoral law . |
| 13 | In effect , Franco had extended his all-encompassing grip on the present to ensure control over the future as well . |
| 14 | Production in one division does not have to match production in the other as surplus can be sold to the market or shortfalls bought from the market . |
| 15 | Shareholders were precluded from intervening in the ordinary business of the company , no longer being entitled to issue instructions to the directors as to how to exercise their powers . |
| 16 | It was unfortunate that Blackburn J. chose to describe liability under the rule as resting upon ‘ an absolute duty to keep it [ sc . |
| 17 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 18 | An appeal for funds is being established now so that there will be enough money in the kitty to be able to commence work on the locomotive as soon as it is taken out of service next year . |
| 19 | He 's about as likely to have sympathy for the devil as he is to have satisfaction . |
| 20 | Because we use the output from our page printer as camera ready copy rather than going to the expense of typesetting we are unable to use scanners to integrate pictures into the text as we make the pages up . |
| 21 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 22 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 23 | Rot had already set into the damp wood and she was able to break chunks off the strut as though they were bits of soggy cardboard . |
| 24 | Andreas Osiander , a contemporary of Copernicus , referred to the prediction that Venus should appear to change size during the year as ‘ a result contradicted by the experience of every age ’ . |
| 25 | They moved more slowly in arts and social studies , and indeed were not authorized to develop degrees in the humanities as the English polytechnics were doing . |
| 26 | But we have now taught ourselves to see benefits to the organism as incidental , as far as natural selection is concerned . |
| 27 | Residential workers need to take part in the decisions as to whether to admit children to care , and , if so , when and on what basis . |
| 28 | I fear that I may not be able to take part in the debate as I intend to cause trouble for the Government over Oxleas wood , which is in my constituency and that of the hon. Member for Woolwich ( Mr. Cartwright ) , but I hope that my hon. Friend will regard my support as being with him throughout the debate . |
| 29 | Mr Erlund said the firm was ready to take advantage of the market as soon as conditions improved . |
| 30 | I started to take things from the house as well , y'know , little things that I thought would n't be noticed . |