Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 2 | It is likely to slip further , as exporters delay converting foreign exchange into pesos in the self-fulfilling expectation that it will . |
| 3 | Several people voiced the suspicion that a frantic battle of the sound systems was taking place as companies vied to attract more customers . |
| 4 | It is impractical , in that raising the necessary revenue would be politically impossible , particularly as needs grow to meet available supplies of resources . |
| 5 | Now , just as economists have spotted hard evidence of a revival , brokers and investors have begun to fret that the Federal Reserve will not cut American interest rates quickly enough to guarantee prosperity . |
| 6 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 7 | During the latter part of the 1970s , cash limits , known as External Financing Limits ( EFLs ) , were introduced as governments tried to control public spending . |
| 8 | Competition between institutions will also be apparent in this sector as universities strive to attract more students and more funds . |
| 9 | At least some competitive advertising may be wasteful , as firms seek to duplicate each other 's expenditures in order to avoid market-share losses ( Lambin , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | In the province , as firms scramble to win public sector contracts , the average tenders being offered are lagging far behind the actual cost of construction . |
| 11 | In the province , as firms scramble to win public sector contracts , the average tenders being offered are lagging far behind the actual cost of construction . |
| 12 | The big chains admitted that house sales could dry up between now and Christmas , as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts . |
| 13 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 14 | If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option . |
| 15 | But why are there three times as many male toads as females coming to breed each season , as all studies of breeding toads have shown ? |
| 16 | Just as scientists have developed special techniques for overcoming bias and artifact , such as the ‘ double blind ’ procedure , so would policemen have to invent concrete measures to overcome the problems they meet . |
| 17 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 18 | Or , again , the Crusades might be seen , as they were in much propaganda , as wars fought to defend fellow Christians suffering physically at the hands of the Muslim world — those who took part being ‘ fired by the ardour of charity ’ towards their brothers . |
| 19 | In the first phase of development in the early 1980s around 30 per cent of changes were bought by former council house tenants , but as prices have rocketed this percentage is now below 10 per cent . |
| 20 | More hearteningly it showed that teasing seemed to decrease as pupils got to know each other better as classmates , and despite the possibility of teasing most of the children interviewed welcomed the social breadth of the integrated setting . |
| 21 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 22 | The paltry crowd of 1,223 had very little to cheer as Quakers failed to show any sign of breaking down the visitors . |
| 23 | In 1939 many men and women went , as others had done 25 years before , to serve in the Army , the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force . |
| 24 | It was only after the two thieves dressed up as policemen had escaped last Sunday with treasures conservatively estimated at $200m that it was revealed that they were uninsured . |
| 25 | The other weakness in Handy 's argument is that there is every possibility that demand for more education and health care will be expressed in the market place as consumers choose to buy these commodities . |
| 26 | As cells differentiate to perform separate functions , they select out specific components from a diverse signalling repertoire to construct personalized messenger pathways precisely adapted to suit their particular requirements . |