Example sentences of "[verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 2 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 3 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 4 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 5 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 6 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 7 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 8 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 9 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 10 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 11 | On theoretical grounds , it has been proposed that hot coronal loops become unstable in evolved stars because of the combined effects of large size ( presumed to scale as the stellar radius ) and low surface gravity , leaving only low-lying cool loops which do not emit X-rays . |
| 12 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 13 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 14 | He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former . |
| 15 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 16 | It is not quite so confiding as the white-tufted , but is a charming bird nonetheless . |
| 17 | Neighbouring Middlesbrough has always been developed as the regional centre . |
| 18 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 19 | In 1911 Fort Station was developed as the principal Colombo station . |
| 20 | In 1889 the new Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway took over the lines and Melton was further developed as the new Committee 's locomotive building and repair centre . |
| 21 | Africa 's modern print and electronic media developed as the direct or indirect result of contact with Europe . |
| 22 | However , and central to its existence , the WEA had originally developed as the organised ‘ voice ’ of the needs of working people to secure provision for liberal adult education essential in its view to the emergence of an educated democracy . |
| 23 | Over the past decade , digestive enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases ( particularly cathepsin B ) has been implicated as the initial event in three forms of experimental pancreatitis . |
| 24 | The results were then calculated as the average error across the 20 readings for a single condition for each of the three pre- and post-adaptation phase conditions . |
| 25 | Transit time was calculated as the average passage time of all markers recovered . |
| 26 | And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years |
| 27 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 28 | Death rates were calculated as the annual number of deaths in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 29 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 30 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords , in the case of Pepper v Hart . |