Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thus formally define equivalence of normal forms as follows . |
| 2 | Indeed the " United Front " was further restricted by an NAC decision on 16 February " to limit co-operation with the Communist Party to specific objects as agreed upon by the representatives of the two parties from time to time " . |
| 3 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 4 | We are not today a society which can draw upon such political intellects as guided America in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton . |
| 5 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 6 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |
| 7 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 8 | We can look on stressed syllables as occurring against a ‘ background ’ of these weak syllables , so that their prominence is increased by contrast with these background qualities . |
| 9 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 10 | Sports shops are stocking up on odd trainers as worn by the pint-sized star — leaving parents to foot a bill of around £160 when they are asked to provide the ill-matching black and white pairs . |
| 11 | Such economic grievances as existed were probably prompted by such immediate issues as the slump in the cloth industry rather than by long-term agrarian questions . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's off sulking most likely , ’ said Harbour , and started to tell her his reasons for believing O'Hara 's performance that evening had been the equal of any of the great Shakespearian roles as portrayed by the likes of Ralphie or Larry . |
| 13 | All eight YACs also contained KOX2-related sequences as determined by hybridisation of EcoRI-digested DNA with the KOX2 cDNA probe ( Figure 5b ) . |
| 14 | One view which can be taken in the light of this decision of the House of Lords is that it is unsafe to rely upon Junior Books as establishing any general principle of liability , a view which accords with the recent decisions of the House of Lords in Caparo v. Dickman and Murphy v. Brentwood DC . |
| 15 | As currently envisaged , " stage three " involved the transfer of powers to a European central bank and the creation of a single European currency ( rather than a " hard ecu " used in parallel with existing European currencies as proposed by the UK — see p. 37969 ) . |
| 16 | In analysing the regulatory system it is probably useful to divide the concept of investor protection into the two broad categorisations as used by Gower — honesty and competence . |
| 17 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 18 | There are few patterns as varied and beautiful as those made by the feathers of birds . |
| 19 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 20 | Full of meaning : light in the context of landscape is one of Braham 's favourite metaphors as illustrated in his 1992 allegorical work Sankowski 's Vision |
| 21 | Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual . |
| 22 | There are also indications of changing social attitudes as regards legitimacy . |
| 23 | For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 . |
| 24 | However , there are further complexities as described in a recent paper by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) who explain why even the presence of seemingly good close relationships sometimes fails to be protective against depression . |
| 25 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 26 | Acid output was expressed a µM per 30 minutes as described . |
| 27 | Such social activities as going to adult education classes , taking trips out in their car , going to church , visiting friends and being visited , now happen on a more regular basis . |
| 28 | This dilemma mirrors the development from the absolute view of foreign state immunity to the acceptance of the restrictive view , as States entered more frequently into commercial activities as opposed to traditional public activities . |
| 29 | The new subject clusters , as they are sometimes termed , have grown in importance , such as policy studies , and there is a much greater emphasis on the development of personal and social skills as opposed to concentration on conceptualization and theoretical analysis . |
| 30 | They see individual achievement as rewarding for men , social skills as rewarding for women . |