Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab . |
| 2 | Leng began today 's section with a 4.2 point advantage over her nearest rival , Germany 's Peter Thomsen on White Girl , after emerging as the only rider among 67 to get under the 40 points dressage mark . |
| 3 | By 1808 there was a developed pattern of street violence and the ‘ people ’ of the barrios bajos — the poor southern quarter of Madrid — after functioning as the ‘ blind instruments ’ of an aristocratic fronde against Godoy were to become the heroes of the Second of May , when they rose against the French troops . |
| 4 | During the day John worked in the cotton trade , and in his spare time he devoted his energy to music and various activities , such as acting as the secretary for cricket clubs , always with the intention of promoting his business career . |
| 5 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 6 | It is with Zerlina that Giovanni sings the enchanting duet ‘ La cì darem la mano ’ , which later composers , including Chopin , paid the compliment of using as the basis for variations . |
| 7 | Ramsay learnt early on the crucial importance of drawing as the basis for his art . |
| 8 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 9 | By the mid-1920s the disunity which had plagued China since the 191 1 revolution showed some prospect of ending as the Nationalist party , the Guomindang , consolidated its control over large areas of the country . |
| 10 | In He drove from Toronto to New York , for example , the spatial entity New York is related to the process of driving as the term of the movement involved in this process . |
| 11 | In addition to doubts about the contracting process , we also take issue with Ham on his singling out of underfunding as the major problem for the future of the NHS . |
| 12 | These idealised sentences often turn out to be based , in fact , on the conventions of written language in the academic sub-culture and these linguists could be seen to be perpetuating , albeit in more sophisticated terms , the older , ideological conception of writing as the model for speech . |
| 13 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
| 14 | Ingarden defines the act of reading as the ‘ realization ’ of the work which is accomplished as the reader progressively fills in the ‘ spots of indeterminacy ’ in it ( 1931:246–54 ) . |
| 15 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 16 | Governors of Teesside Poly have agreed to redesignate the Middlesbrough seat of learning as the University of Teesside . |
| 17 | The situation basically is that I am confident I can come to accommodation with Norfolk from my way of thinking as the neighbouring Highway Authority , those the people we 've got to er to make certain are on site , I 'm sure , I 'm confident enough to do that . |
| 18 | ( c ) A registered foreign lawyer shall do nothing in the course of practising as the director of a recognised body which puts the recognised body in breach of any of these rules , or any other rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies . ’ |
| 19 | In such cases it may need to be supported at the level of verbal consciousness , and , like grieving as the gateway to reattachment , should not be prematurely foreclosed . |
| 20 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 21 | Multivariate analysis was by logistic regression with anti-HEV as the dependent variable , starting with age , gender , and location as baseline covariates and with additional covariates added stepwise . |
| 22 | The figures for ( u ) were calculated by treating the variation as a continuum with fronting as the sole dimension and this may have distorted the actual situation . |
| 23 | The key issue here is to establish the need for recording as the only accurate method of detecting change ( good or bad ) in a child 's behaviour . |
| 24 | Jean Dwyer , widely known in publishing as the long standing London syndication manager of News Ltd of Australia , died in Oxford on 9th March , aged 59 , after a long illness . |
| 25 | Many of these were the overseas branches of US banks which made a healthy margin in acting as the go-betweens between the OPEC members , who wanted to lend dollars , and the countries with balance of payments deficits which wanted to borrow them . |
| 26 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 27 | wean their foals abruptly and completely ( generally a foal is gradually discouraged from suckling as the next one is on the way , but wo n't leave its mother until it is two or three ) ; |
| 28 | It is worth shopping around before choosing as the scope of cover , sums insured and premium costs vary considerably . |
| 29 | Middle-class children from a German Jewish background were weaned on a faith in learning as the way to a prosperous and fulfilling career . |
| 30 | I can see you are as addicted to knitting as the rest of us , by the fact that you say Murphy 's Law operates every day ! |