Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber .
2 Now even if you test things thoroughly as you 're building your spreadsheets , then it 's quite possible that something you do later on affects something you do earlier on .
3 Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets .
4 I watch Fairfax carefully as he talks to the laibon .
5 Almost 3O branches already incorporate chemists either as sub-lets or concessions , but this is the first time JS has teamed up with Boots .
6 Harley would have them jump ship just as it 's pulling into the dock .
7 Because the broker deals only as principal , his client would not be able to read through his contract to the market ( and so require its performance ) if the broker defaults ; this contrasts significantly with the position on the London Stock Exchange .
8 She describes how women organized their time creating routines to give order to their days and set goals so as to be able to feel that they had achieved something with their labour .
9 The inherent danger of reliance on any particular method , and one that was apparent in some responses , is the tendency for libraries who can not utilize external courses or release staff internally as they would ideally like to , largely to abandon ( or never fully entertain ) , the concept of systematic training for all staff .
10 After adopting amendments to the congress agenda and hearing the report by outgoing party first secretary Mieczyslaw Rakowski , delegates on Jan. 27 decided to suspend the PUWP congress and resume meetings forthwith as the founding congress of a new and as yet unnamed party of the left .
11 The starting point for feminist analyses of health care is the assumption that the practices and institutions of modern medicine control and disempower women both as consumers and producers of health care , and are unresponsive to their needs .
12 In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown .
13 If you apply force just as the swing attains its maximum height and begins to drop , you add energy most efficiently , in synchrony with the swing 's cycle .
14 If you water plants thoroughly as the fruits are ripening you should increase the weight of the crop .
15 However , the ‘ Intel inside ’ has now become Intel outside as Intel will manufacture a range of computers , using the 486SX and DX processors , for Amstrad .
16 Use smetana exactly as you would use yogurt .
17 And we whenever we do layouts now as well we insure that all fire exits are kept to a minimum of one and half metres wide , er , in terms of main access ways .
18 They do cricket there as well .
19 In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat .
20 Distinguished people make a practice of visiting the opera , and pull rank so as to meet the artistes , especially attractive females . ’
21 Acting for a buyer , see warning above as to liability after a re-sale .
22 If , however , we see sexuality simply as one human attribute among others , sexual preference for one 's own sex or the opposite one becomes a matter of inclination .
23 If you are staying in a caravan or tent and do n't have access to a refrigerator , buy food only as you need it .
24 Check spellings just as you would check your facts .
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