Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Further regular meetings are intended so as to maintain the vital liaison between the carpet industry , Parliament and government , and to enable carpet manufacturers to voice their concern .
2 However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future .
3 Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans .
4 It is very important that the condition be recognised so as to avoid the expense and trouble of investigations and multiple consultant referrals .
5 As far as possible , the extracts are ordered so as to follow the structure of the earlier chapters .
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