Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though much attention has been focused on critical ‘ breakthroughs ’ in such areas as micro-electronics , biotechnology and new materials where the potential for creating dramatic changes is obvious , change can also be created in small steps as firms find new ways of upgrading efficiencies . |
| 2 | Staff at the Kirkby factory have been working flat out to meet demand for their popular ice lollies as temperatures rose this weekend . |
| 3 | Commentators in this school tend to emphasise class and economic variables as factors producing poor standards of child care , and to de-emphasise parental culpability and personal inadequacy . |
| 4 | But there was growing competition also between building societies and banks , as banks moved into the housing loan market , and from National Savings as governments used National Savings more aggressively as a means of financing their own borrowing requirements . |
| 5 | Indeed , counter staff could also be trained to react to selective product selling opportunities as branches gain easier access to the contents of their customer database . |
| 6 | No , the problem was banks were giving away their commissions to investors as inducements to buy expensively-priced bonds , the result of new issues arranged by banks desperate to maintain market share . |
| 7 | Given the reality of the current difficulties with the use of office systems as tools to manage large volumes of records ( a task for which , on the whole , they were not originally designed ) , how can records managers contribute to improving the situation primarily for the creating organisations , and indirectly also for other potential users of the records ? |
| 8 | Feminists have paid particular attention to the way in which an ideology which assigns a primary role to women as mothers informs medical control of reproduction . |