Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 2 | US consumption of electricity is expected to grow by 46 per cent , and coal , which produces more carbon dioxide than either oil or gas , is expected to continue as the staple fuel for generations . |
| 3 | The magnitude of the overt CR will depend on the interaction of these two forms of learning and can thus be expected to diminish as the contribution of the latter increases . |
| 4 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 5 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 6 | The Civic Centre complex with the Palace of the People ( later renamed Palace of the Republic ) at its heart was designed to function as the main shrine and nerve-centre of the cult of Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 7 | W. Walton Butterworth had already written that ‘ acute personal animosity between General Hodge and Dr Rhee , considered in conjunction with the fact that the latter is expected to emerge as the dominant figure , if not the titular head of the new government in south Korea ’ rendered Hodge 's departure inevitable . |
| 8 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 9 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 10 | As autumn comes into it 's own , the number of visitors is expected to double as the pale leaves of summer change colour . |
| 11 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 12 | One category is picked to act as the base for comparison with all other categories . |
| 13 | The union treaty was intended to serve as the basis for a new Soviet constitution ; it also set out the structure of government of the new union , including a directly elected Supreme Soviet in which all national areas would be represented . |
| 14 | 15 The high quality of the environment in the project areas provides a spectacular contrast with unreconstructed streets nearby — and indeed with the public environment we have grown to accept as the norm in Britain . |
| 15 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 16 | Writing on this method of enquiry , John Madge said that ‘ when the heart of the observer is made to beat as the heart of any other member of the group under observation , rather than as that of a detached emissary from some distant laboratory , then he has earned the title of participant observer . ’ |
| 17 | If the variable duty cycle waveform is applied to act as the control parameter of the switching regulator of Fig. 4 , then the voltage will be controllable over a wide range and provide an adjustable and stabilised output . |
| 18 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 19 | The project will therefore seek to identify the main implications of the trend towards the Regulatory State and is intended to be the first step towards a major research programme investigating the potentials and problems of regulation in practice across the whole spectrum of what we used to describe as the Welfare State . |
| 20 | Given a Sylos assumption by a potential entrant , entry will seem nonsensical since price is bound to fall as the entrant 's output will add to industry output , and the potential entrant ( with the same technology as the established firm ) will therefore make losses . |
| 21 | We were invited to provide as the parish council we were invited to provide a stone with the details on . |
| 22 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 23 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 24 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 26 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 27 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 28 | This movement has become known as the Renaissance in the English-speaking world , the Rinascimento in Italy . |
| 29 | Chlorothiazide is the forerunner of a large class of similar drugs , which have become known as the thiazide diuretics . |
| 30 | Several parish and community councils have given themselves the status of a town council , whereupon the chairman of the parish council has become known as the town mayor . |