Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , the study draws attention to one of the causes of fairly rapid growth in these sectors , namely the transfer of jobs from the production industries as contracting out to the service industries continues . |
| 2 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 3 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 4 | Marx 's main quarrel with writers such as Maine is that they see the communal aspect of the descent group as growing out of the expansion of the family . |
| 5 | So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class . |
| 6 | So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class . |
| 7 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 8 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
| 9 | As well as cashing in on the publicity , Hughes hoped the judge might be persuaded to grant Mitchum parole or postpone his jail term — if it came to that — until he had finished the film . |
| 10 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 11 | The poem obviously engages with Milton 's experience of the revolution 's defeat following the Restoration , and , given Milton 's well-known support for Commonwealth and Protectorate , it is difficult to imagine a reader in the early 1670s perceiving the poem as evolving out of the period of the late 1640s , a time which many supporters of the English Revolution experienced as one of hope and triumph . |