Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It should be remembered that in meetings of this type the minutes act as the authority for implementing the decisions . |
| 32 | Major was thus two votes short of a straight overall majority of those entitled to vote , which the election rules stipulated as the requirement for the election of a candidate on the second ballot . |
| 33 | In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service . |
| 34 | The reviewer accused Allison of ‘ Scraping a little from the edges ’ but still guessed that : ‘ If it was played near a poster of George Michael , it would cause the corners to curl as the paper spontaneously combusted . ’ |
| 35 | Only the topmost branches were still gilded by daylight , the illuminated areas shrinking as the sun dropped below the misty horizon . |
| 36 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 37 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 38 | As far as I can see , the only thing the privatised companies are doing is keeping the bills rising as the water level drops . |
| 39 | However , the content required for such targets is inadequate for a true presentation of the Catholic faith tradition — it does not embody that content which adherents know as the essential elements of their faith . |
| 40 | This , together with their ability to organise clandestine activity and their promises of economic and social reform , helped the Communists to emerge as the strongest party in the first post-war elections in October 1945 , when they won 26 per cent of the vote . |
| 41 | Bruno was familiar with the collection of texts known as the Corpus Hermeticum , then attributed to an Egyptian philosopher , Hermes Trismegistus . |
| 42 | Partly inspired by a set of texts known as the Hermetic Corpus , the elite magicians of the Renaissance rejected what they saw as stultifying in Aristotelian science : a neglect of the particular for the general and an indifference toward practical application . |
| 43 | There were strict controls over the export of capital and the City 's ability to invest abroad ( outside the group of countries known as the Overseas Sterling Area and consisting to a large extent of former members of the Empire ) was restricted . |
| 44 | Taxpayers round the rich world owe thanks to a bunch of 14 mostly-developing countries known as the Cairns group . |
| 45 | One example is a unique zero-point quantum force between closely spaced metal plates known as the Casimir force , which results from unbalanced pressures in the zero-point energy due to the presence of the plates . |
| 46 | Very characteristic of the side-drum are the strokes known as the ‘ flam ’ and the ‘ drag ’ . |
| 47 | Each is a member of the group of companies known as the Gomba Group . |
| 48 | They feel that if the Conservatives emerge as the largest minority party on April 9 and attempt to rule alone , the Liberal Democrats could make Labour ‘ sweat ’ by keeping the Tories going , even though this would mean effectively abandoning their clear commitment to electoral reform above all else . |
| 49 | But one chromosome may be missing ( this is only known in humans in the form XO ( = Y chromosome missing ) which produces a specific syndrome of sexual and other effects known as the Turner syndrome ) . |
| 50 | Behind us the shouts and exclamations grew as the scarlet stain spread . |
| 51 | So much so , that the cultural function of higher education was one of the four functions identified as the core of Robbins ' idea of higher education . |
| 52 | Over 80 per cent of oaks have lost more than a quarter of normal crown density , with attacks from winter moths identified as the main cause . |
| 53 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 54 | Depression is the most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders described as the common cold of psychiatry . |
| 55 | The photograph on page 136 is the ultimate in portrayal of a fighting soldier placed in the context of a cricket match : unshaven , helmet and armguard in place , features contorted , limbs braced as the enemy fires at him . |
| 56 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King in honour of the time they saved Caledor the first from Dark Elf assassins . |
| 57 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King . |
| 58 | A group directed by Dr Freddie Bakhtar in the School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering has developed a major new experimental facility to investigate the behaviour of the water droplets formed as the steam condenses — one of the key factors in steam turbine efficiency . |
| 59 | The BDA 's involvement in Europe is from a historical point of view likely to be seen in years to come as the finest achievement of the last few years . |
| 60 | Although colorectal carcinoma patients had evidence of low serum cholesterol concentrations , no further lowering of cholesterol or its two major lipoprotein fractions occurred as the disease process spread . |