Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE family of Magheraberry life prisoner Bobby Corry have asked us to point out that they did not attend his wedding on Thursday to fellow prisoner Anna Moore and his brother did not act as best man as suggested in our report . |
| 2 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 3 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 4 | You can think of solar radiation as consisting of a rain of tiny bullets moving outwards from the Sun at the speed of light . |
| 5 | Chairman , just before we leave things can I just remind members now that , that , the target set for this Committee was a net increase , and , have that in mind as we go through , and that increase is some six hundred and forty thousand pounds , which we could show within those papers as having arrived at it , in ninety four , five . |
| 6 | We can look on stressed syllables as occurring against a ‘ background ’ of these weak syllables , so that their prominence is increased by contrast with these background qualities . |
| 7 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 8 | Er if they 're retailers then they should er comply with retail regulations as does any other retailer in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | If your budget ca n't stretch to such luxuries as massaging gadgets and slendering creams , try these tips to tighten and tone slack , unattractive skin . |
| 10 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 11 | Tax , which will start at 59 per cent , will climb to such rates as have not been seen since Roy Jenkins with his 103 per cent ‘ top slice ’ . |