Example sentences of "[vb base] as [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society . |
| 2 | By producing this Bill , and by everything that they have done , are doing and will do , the Government are endeavouring to give British Coal the time and the means to meet what we perceive as longer-term needs . |
| 3 | They wo n't buy what they perceive as Scottish products that are made in England . ’ |
| 4 | The boundaries of physics constantly change as new discoveries are made , e.g. the discovery of new fundamental particles . |
| 5 | Unfortunately there is very little hard research evidence as to the sort of residential provision which best suits people with differing levels or types of disability , and fashions change as new ideas evolve . |
| 6 | Small side valleys , or tributary valleys , were cut less deeply and they remain as hanging valleys above the main U-shaped troughs . |
| 7 | They are fully described in operation by Hansford Worth on Dartmoor , where they remain as stone-built structures . |
| 8 | This obscures the fact that although States act as their representatives in international arenas , individuals remain as third parties . |
| 9 | THE goal of individual freedom and the value of society , which we advocate as democratic socialists , is a theory of sustained intellectual force . |
| 10 | A little later , the true wing tracheae develop as tubular outgrowths of the large tracheae , and extend into the vein cavities along with the larval tracheoles , which they supplant . |
| 11 | Sumner saw hunger , love , vanity and fear as key forces underlying individual behaviour and people developed a number of social institutions to maintain these needs . |
| 12 | Civil servants sit as non-executive directors on some firms ' boards . |
| 13 | Fewer and fewer independent candidates sit as elected members , with many commentators now referring to this process of change as the ‘ nationalisation ’ of local politics . |
| 14 | Her hands stayed in her lap , limp as puppet limbs . |
| 15 | But while all topics are necessarily subject to identity , clearly not all topics qualify as possible existents , and only a miniscule proportion of possible topics actually exist , and herein lies our problem . |
| 16 | First , whether the UK parent and its subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right under ss 246 and 247 , CA 1985 . |
| 17 | Moreover there can be no existents that can not be objects of thought , although , clearly , not all objects of thought qualify as potential existents . |
| 18 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 19 | If the recognition of spoken words is affected by preceding context then we would expect that this highly familiar context should be sufficient to rule out trestle and tress as possible candidates , despite their consistency with the partial word tres … . |
| 20 | When not in use these are tucked away in the Split boxes at the top right and bottom left of the screen and appear as black bars above and to the left of the arrows at the ends of the two scroll bars . |
| 21 | Peptide binding is associated with stabilization of assembled class I molecules which appear as strong bands in the autoradiograph . |
| 22 | When we return to them with the scrutiny of our adult minds , they appear as towering shelters , full of colour and minutely-remembered detail . |
| 23 | Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett once again appear as transitional figures in this postmodernist direction . |
| 24 | Or , as she said in an interview with Paul Oldfield : ‘ Throwing Muses go so far into people 's inner dreams , their family lives , that you find what appear as outside problems . ’ |
| 25 | Interactionism derives then from these two modes of experiencing ( the monist present continuum and dualist self-description ) which , on analysis , simply appear as inherent properties of the human cognitive process . |
| 26 | Epact and dominical letters These devices also appear as additional symbols and supporters of dates on documents penned in the Middle Ages ; they are auxiliaries dependent on the computation of Easter dates and , if there is any doubt created by the main convention used , can be of value . |
| 27 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |
| 28 | Since Brooke was already dead and Savile discredited , Sir Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick ( an old member of Emmanuel ) , and William Fiennes , first Viscount Saye and Sele ( whose eldest son had been there ) [ qq.v. ] appear as possible links . |
| 29 | The first and third columns illustrate light stimuli , the second and fourth show about one second 's worth of the electrical responses from each cell ; the electrical impulses appear as vertical deflections on these records . |
| 30 | The significance of both approaches is the challenge they gave to the ‘ naturalness ’ of what appear as basic divisions . |