Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 2 | That theory , and its antithesis , the contract theory , share a common assumption that whether or not society has a right to demand that companies serve the public interest depends on whether the state can be depicted as playing some special role in corporate existence , different in kind from its role in sustaining unincorporated businesses . |
| 3 | Why do the live birth figures for the last two quarters of 1985 and for the whole of 1985 appear as rounded thousands ? |
| 4 | As we have seen , in the Third Reich it was the specific circumstances of the rise of monopoly capital , the corporatist state organised as protecting national purity , hyperinflation , the rapid rise in unemployment and perceived threats to the ‘ little man ’ . |
| 5 | The group had earlier threatened to attack French , United States and United Kingdom targets in the city in revenge for what they described as planned Western aggression against Iraq . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Harman refused to grant an injunction in favour of the plaintiff and strongly criticized the use of an American contract which he described as having odd and inept phrasing . |
| 7 | Since ideology works in a mysterious way , it is not easy to see what would count as meeting such a standard , but it is clear that Althusser himself does not succeed . |
| 8 | Chairman Sam Smith has since resigned as have three non-executive directors . |
| 9 | Several widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been reported as causing severe hepatitis . |
| 10 | Hitler 's speech , in fact , though according to one local report in Bavaria said to have brought about a ‘ direct miracle ’ and from SD soundings to have prompted the standard wish that the Führer would speak to the people more often since his words provided greater stimulation than anything else , was reported as provoking less discussion than usual . |
| 11 | In addition to the total of 285,000 troops can be reckoned a certain number of Pasdaran , the Revolutionary Guards ( later reported as numbering 250,000 ) and a similarly uncomputed number of baseej , the highly motivated volunteer formations combining adolescents with the over-40s . |
| 12 | Based on a national postal survey to chief constables in 1986 , it is estimated that 75–80 000 young people are reported as missing each year in Britain ( De'Ath , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | By the time IISS brought out their 1984/85 issue of Military Balance , updating the position at the war 's outbreak , Iraq was reported as having five Super Etendards . |
| 14 | Almost 25 per cent of all the farms in Wales were reported as having low standards of living ‘ with an element of struggle in making ends meet financially ’ . |
| 15 | Gilgamesh is not reported as having any significant dreams after Enkidu 's death , and despite his continuing efforts to penetrate the mysteries it becomes increasingly apparent that his powers have waned and the gods have turned against him . |
| 16 | Known for more than 20 years as Nguyen Ai Quoc , ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , under this name he was reported as attending international conferences and became the author of numerous articles . |
| 17 | Biopsies of the pouches of all these patients were reported as showing active chronic inflammation . |
| 18 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 19 | The judge is not reported as making any speculation as to the source of this knowledge , which is obviously from the newspapers themselves . |
| 20 | But it also harks back to the leadership campaign , when this noted intellectual was reported as saying some unkind things about the cerebral quality of one candidate , a Mr John Major , who heard the reports . |
| 21 | The peptic activity of mucosal homogenates was determined in an assay at pH 2.0 by the method of Anson and Mirsky and expressed as specific activity ( IU/mg protein ) ; aliquots of mucosal homogenates assayed by this method were considered as representing total peptic activity . |
| 22 | Sending the editor a copy of parents ' newsletters as a regular routine will sometimes create interest in events at school which you will not have considered as having any press appeal . |
| 23 | We found two women ( 6% ) who had rapid transit time and could be considered as having clinical diarrhoea but neither had consulted a doctor about it and we do not know when their diarrhoea began in relation to their operation . |
| 24 | In practice , this was operationalized as making complex verbal requests ( even though the people served had almost no receptive or expressive language ) , and de-emphasizing ordinary household activities as sources of possible client involvement . |
| 25 | In the Gospels Jesus is presented as violating various laws of sabbath , of cleanliness and of not associating with unclean persons , such as women , sinners and gentiles . |
| 26 | Last year , attendances slumped as fans tired of a proliferation of championships , chaotic organisation , rocketing ticket prices and punch-ups on the pitch . |
| 27 | Most cultures recognise three broad stages of development , in both the individual and the group : ( a ) Primitive response to nature : Nature is accepted as containing all systems of order and mankind attempts its interpretation by immediate response to its stimuli . |
| 28 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 29 | ‘ Both Mr Sugar and Mr Venables are accepted as having forceful personalities . |
| 30 | Although ability tests receive a higher ranking in terms of their predictive validity from these meta-analytic studies than they do from Muchinsky , personality tests were rated as having lower validity . |