Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top of the Fischer range is the Vacuum 280 as sued by none other than Michael Stich , Wimbledon champion . |
| 2 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 3 | He gave a ten-year prison sentence for this as opposed to two years for one of the rapes of women . |
| 4 | It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness . |
| 5 | In this context ‘ critical ’ and ‘ rational ’ powers were developed and Goody sees this as connected with the beginnings of religious and natural philosophy and ultimately with science ( ibid . ) . |
| 6 | ( See Chapter 8 for further discussion on this as applied to religion . ) |
| 7 | ( Alternatively we can read this as beginning with a clause in which the given is ellipted : ‘ although he was energetic and successful ’ . ) |
| 8 | For example Adrian Thatcher ( 1991 ) takes issue with the emphasis on private individualism which talk of " inwardness " tends to convey , seeing this as based on a radical distinction between what is objective and what is subjective — a distinction which , though very influential since the seventeenth century , is now regarded as mistaken . |
| 9 | Armstrong and McGee see this as contributing to the growth of countries with more industrialised centres and the decline of the smaller republics , thus intensifying regional disparities ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 ) . |
| 10 | It is worth pausing to consider ‘ deindustrialization ’ , the destruction of what Row thorn ( 1986 ) calls a ‘ workshop economy ’ , and of the role of space in this as identified by Massey ( 1984 ) . |
| 11 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 12 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 13 | As the language used in this posting is much snappier than normal I think I 'll take this as arising from a Man Utd supporter — if there is such a thing . |
| 14 | The second question concerns the value placed on feminine as opposed to masculine terms in an opposition . |
| 15 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 16 | This pattern of change was n't , however , completely repeated in the 1970s , according to the 1980s re-study , which compared the landscapes of 1983 with those of 1972 as shown in Table 8.3 . |
| 17 | The critical provisions with which we are concerned are section 7(3) and ( 4 ) and section 8(2) which reproduce provisions previously contained in section 8(3) , ( 4 ) and ( 6 ) respectively of the Act of 1972 as substituted by the Act of 1981 . |
| 18 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
| 19 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 20 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 21 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 22 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 23 | Trading Standards boss Peter Mawdsley claims 80,000 people are injured around November 5 , not 800 as recorded by the government . |
| 24 | The Court has already held , in its judgment of 23 November 1989 in the Torfaen case , that national rules governing the opening hours of retail premises reflect certain political and economic choices in so far as their purpose is to ensure that working and non-working hours are so arranged as to accord with national or regional socio-cultural characteristics , and that , in the present state of Community law , is a matter for the member states . |
| 25 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |
| 26 | I had chosen the right moment , because I found him , not so much irresolute as musing on the possibility of being wiped out by ‘ a stray bomb ’ . |
| 27 | See the Bankers ' Books Evidence Act 1879 as noted in The County Court Practice . |
| 28 | The approach that I have called theoretical as opposed to practical must have as a major part of its aim not merely the passing on of facts and formulae but the inculcation of critical and speculative habit . |
| 29 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 30 | I think we 've all got used to , with some products at least , asking questions about how green it is , whether it 's recycled paper , whether it 's going to destroy the ozone layer , as well as asking questions like what price is it , but if we 're going to decide whether one jar of coffee is fair-traded as opposed to another one , what questions do we need to kn know the answers to , to decide that . |