Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 2 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 3 | The latest attack by two masked men on an ice-cream van on Sunday night forced the 48-year-old driver and his 24-year-old assistant to jump to safety as the vehicle was engulfed in flames . |
| 4 | The latest attack by two masked men on an ice-cream van on Sunday night forced the 48-year-old driver and his 24-year-old assistant to jump to safety as the vehicle was engulfed in flames . |
| 5 | The latest attack by two masked men on an ice-cream van on Sunday night forced the 48-year-old driver and his 24-year-old assistant to jump to safety as the vehicle was engulfed in flames . |
| 6 | A working party concluded that the Resolution was unworkable if strictly construed and in any event so likely to lead to problems as to be impracticable . |
| 7 | At best it is likely to lead to confusion as some people follow the new route and others hang on to the old one . |
| 8 | How can we learn to listen to children as well as get them to listen to us ? |
| 9 | But Mr Hume said he was ‘ quite willing ’ to talk to unionists as well . |
| 10 | Although the Advertising Standards Authority recommends that advertisements should carry a note stating that prices are subject to change , the only time advertisers have to stick to prices as published is when the product is a special offer . |
| 11 | Also , the requirements for the investigation of accidents should be made to apply to incidents as well . |
| 12 | Was the interdict extended to apply to trusts as well ? |
| 13 | And he led the way to the jeep , waving to the people in the café , and pausing to chat to Maria as she served a tray full of beer , and to Abuelo as his granddaughter led him away by the hand . |
| 14 | They were kept in the house overnight and yesterday morning one was told to go to work as normal at the west Belfast shop . |
| 15 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 16 | Which is also why I feel that he ought to go to Ironcrest as well . |
| 17 | We had to go to classes as well . |
| 18 | The deadlock was broken when a government-appointed conciliator persuaded the Peugeot chairman to agree to talks as soon as a 19-day sit-in at the Mulhouse plant was ended . |
| 19 | Lillee completed his 10 overs for just 18 runs and captured the only two West Indian wickets to fall to bowlers as the touring side swept home by seven wickets with 5.4 overs to spare . |
| 20 | The trouble started when ill-feeling over ticket allocations threatened to turn to violence as supporters of both sides braved the cold to make sure of their seats . |
| 21 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 22 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |
| 23 | Third , it seems that most adults are predisposed to respond to infants as social beings , and they are prepared to spend a considerable amount of time and energy in establishing a degree of social rapport . |
| 24 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 25 | Nucleocapsid protein from MoMuLV , AMV and rous sarcoma virus have been shown to bind to DNA as well as to RNA and tRNA ( 12 , 14–16 ) . |
| 26 | At least ten works have already been snapped up at the private view , so my advice is to get to Billingham as soon as you can . |
| 27 | In July Joshi relinquished the governorship of Meghalaya [ see above ] and in December he resigned as Governor of Assam in order to return to Rajasthan as Chief Minister [ see p. 37125 ; for his subsequent removal in March 1990 see p. 37246 ] . |
| 28 | He had recovered sufficiently by the spring to return to sea as flag-captain in the Resolution under Generals Richard Deane and George Monck [ qq.v. ] , and took part in the major actions off the Gabbard in June and the Texel in July . |
| 29 | THE pressure on Germany 's finance minister , Theo Waigel , to return to Bavaria as state premier is of the cost-push , not the demand-pull variety . |
| 30 | My wife was working for Cossors the electronic company and they moved to Harlow and er , it , in order for her to retain her job , we had to move to Harlow as well . |