Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 2 | In the in vivo assay both mutations behaved as the wild type , but they had slightly lower affinities than wild type in vitro as judged by gel retardation assays . |
| 3 | For example , different instances of sounds that human listeners perceive as the same may have very different waveforms . |
| 4 | In the silence that followed , he cautiously stooped to pick it up , his eyes widening as the gift unfolded in his hands . |
| 5 | Moving the smaller oval into place is much easier than you might expect because of the way guidelines appear as the point that you have picked up come into alignment with important features on other object . |
| 6 | The lines on his face and the slope of his eyes varied as the pictures changed . |
| 7 | In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three . |
| 8 | Many sauropods , in spite of their ever-growing height spurred on by the need to reach the foliage of trees growing ever higher , had hollowed out , weight-saving vertebrae and a pelvic girdle described by one writer as being like a suspension bridge , with the massive erect hind legs acting as the down-pillar , and the long torso and rigid tail acting as the cross-span . |
| 9 | Car parks were flooded and shops threatened as the River Ouse , in York , began to rise . |
| 10 | The proposals of the six schools selected as the focus for our evaluation are representative of the range of proposals reviewed , and the evaluators are satisfied that the picture which emerges from this sample is true to the general flavour and direction of the Major Project as a whole . |
| 11 | The major improvement to be found by including the GFF is the reduction in the number of words selected as the best . |
| 12 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 13 | What this was to produce was a shift of power away from the House of Commons to the cabinet and to the electorate , with political parties serving as the conduit for this transfer . |
| 14 | The aim of this chapter is to examine what Marxists envisaged as the elements of non-bureaucratic administration in the communist system . |
| 15 | We had chosen the Nelson Lakes park as the perfect walker 's playground . |
| 16 | Sadly the situation did deteriorate during the seven-year war and lots of schools closed as the troubles increased . |
| 17 | Both Table 7 and Table 8 show a significant increase in number of words recognised as the level of processing increases . |
| 18 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 19 | Referring to SPLA dissidents known as the Nasir group [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] , he said that the only towns taken by the government forces were those " which depend on our dissidents … who have defected and chosen the camp of Gen. Bashir " . |
| 20 | Willie 's eyes stung as the ground moved in a gentle haze beneath him . |
| 21 | It 's up to you , he 's saying , to satisfy the hunger which the letter to Katkov and the Crime and Punishment notebooks rationalize as the criminal 's moral demand . |
| 22 | The houses of the great in England had for centuries served as the model for the aspiring middle classes . |
| 23 | ( Abel Matutes , the EC Commissioner for Latin America , noted that access arrangements in respect of Andean Pact countries were " temporary and exceptional " to help eradicate drug trafficking , but agreed that the Central American countries should be compensated for losses incurred as the result of the concessions , particularly as regards coffee . ) |
| 24 | Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project . |
| 25 | Ashley demanded , her hazel eyes sparking as the idea gathered credibility . |
| 26 | Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment . |
| 27 | The effects of explosion blast waves scale as the ratio of blast energy to atmospheric density . |
| 28 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 29 | The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing . |
| 30 | A month later , on January 11th , 1907 , the Bondholders met as the Committee , and the first official Minute was made . |