Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |
| 2 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |
| 3 | But whatever its size , you need to plan for convenience as well as impact , wear as well as warmth ; a space that fits the feel of your home as well as it fits you . |
| 4 | Please confirm that you are able to attend for interview as requested . |
| 5 | All the 650 headquarters staff were told to report for work as normal . |
| 6 | And on a car of this class the steering column ought to adjust for rake as well as reach . |
| 7 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 8 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 9 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 10 | THE Yorkshire Post , which should know , says Glenda Jackson is seriously considering the offer of a nomination to stand for selection as Labour candidate in Leeds East in succession to Denis Healey . |
| 11 | The capacitor now charges via R but when the output is low the forward-biased diode D allows a discharge current to pass through Rd as well as R. The discharge time ( output low ) is , therefore , much shorter . |
| 12 | The poet who would go on in ‘ East Coker ’ to write of poetry as ‘ a raid on the inarticulate ’ now pulls back from his earlier position in his wish ‘ to avoid employing the terms Romanticism and Classicism ’ , and concludes that ‘ we are still in the Arnold period ’ . |
| 13 | It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child 's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly . |
| 15 | His heart began to thump with apprehension as he brought the bike to a halt outside the drive gates to the big house . |
| 16 | As a vine will generally withstand a temperature as low as -5°C water-spraying systems are set up to come into operation as soon as the temperature drops to 1°C . |
| 17 | She began to shake with rage as the lift reached the floor on which her apartment was situated . |
| 18 | She began to shake with reaction as soon as it was done . |
| 19 | The engine stopped its fretful clacking and began to bellow with satisfaction as the air became stronger . |
| 20 | And do you want to come in Mr as well ? |
| 21 | In the wake of his early film success , he rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America as he wanted to work in theatre as well as films . |
| 22 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 23 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 24 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 25 | Yet these feelings seem to diminish in intensity as one gets older . |
| 26 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 27 | Her spine was so tense , her shoulders so rigid , that she ached all over and that empty and gnawing pain in her stomach seemed to increase in severity as dusk approached and the hour when son and husband would return grew closer . |
| 28 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |