Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grade point average and the development of educational testing may in this sense have as much of a backwash effect on the teaching and learning process in the United States as does the public examination system in Britain . |
| 2 | The victim came from Milton Keynes as do the two men accused of his murder . |
| 3 | Turning to the conduct of investment business by solicitors , the Society 's second yearly report was accepted by SIB as representing the satisfactory discharge of the Society 's obligations as a recognised professional body . |
| 4 | The following sectors have also been identified by the British Embassy 's Commercial Sections in Ankara and Istanbul as holding the greatest potential for UK exporters : hospital and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals ; tourism/hotel equipment and leisure ; shipbuilding and marine equipment ; telecommunications ; natural gas distribution equipment ; water and sewerage treatment , and pollution control equipment . |
| 5 | Commenting that he did not read this extract from the judgment of Dixon J. as displacing the general principle stated by Fry J. in Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 , 196 , Fox L.J . |
| 6 | The judgment for the plaintiff was upheld by the House of Lords , but Lord Cairns L.C. rested his decision on the ground that the defendant had made a ‘ non-natural use ’ of his land , though he regarded the judgment of Blackburn J. as reaching the same result and said he entirely concurred in it . |
| 7 | Tass quoted Gen Grachev as saying the Georgian air force had painted seven Su-25s in Russian colours and was using the planes to bomb populated areas . |
| 8 | Ophiopristis differs from Ophioprium as follows the oral tentacle scales are not markedly different from the oral papillae — those of Ophioprium are much more elongate and slightly separated ; the tentacle pores are smaller and armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales whereas the pores in Ophioprium are open and armed with small thin tentacle scales . |
| 9 | Among the countries of South East Asia , a recent World Bank report regards the Philippines as having the highest level of poverty and the lowest calory supply per head . |
| 10 | It was also rejected by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow as contravening the Soviet constitution . |
| 11 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 12 | While Jamie is regarded in Hollywood as having the perfect body , Emma adopts a no-nonsense approach to acting that keeps the work flooding in . |
| 13 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |