Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The octopus brain is a mass of small neurons and surrounding cells , whose connections are not well understood and the mapping of which will require as many lifetimes of research as has gone into mammalian studies in the last century . |
| 2 | Mr Murray made it clear yesterday that he would like the counties to accept the whole plan , not just parts of it as has happened with earlier committees . |
| 3 | Employers must simply abandon the national agreement altogether , or the employers may simply ban the national agreement altogether , as has happened in other industries like cotton spinning and weaving . |
| 4 | The Government will have mapped out its legislative programme for the session in the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the session and will give first priority to the commitments there undertaken and to any important urgent Bill ( as has happened in recent decades in the cases of Rhodesia and Northern Ireland ) . |
| 5 | His own development proposals were regarded as alien and imposed from outside , again as has happened in developing countries . |
| 6 | If a more formal system of appraisal is adopted ( as has happened in some part of the United States ) to evaluate teachers throughout their career , certain significant problems will need to be resolved . |
| 7 | There have , however , been some attempts to go beyond this and to develop conceptions of TNCs not as representatives of the power of the state , as tends to happen within state-centrist analyses , but as independent of and even , on occasion , opponents of the state . |
| 8 | As regards choosing between special services , one response may be to argue that if , as will always be the case , there is not enough money to meet all the needs for special care , then the simple answer is to make more available . |
| 9 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 10 | Children 's skin burns so easily , as does skin of some adults . |