Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 2 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 3 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 4 | The next thing , they 'll be telling Mushtaq Ahmed not to bowl his googly as that 's not fair either ! |
| 5 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 6 | We 're trying , of course , to position ourselves so as to fool our competitors into delaying or cancelling their capacity increases . |
| 7 | I 'll bring Whitey to meet you just as soon as I can and I know you 'll love him . ’ |
| 8 | Equally , it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and vice versa . |
| 9 | The unfortunate lady 's dresses were sent to the family home in Foster Place , where a maid was tempted to try one on as she unpacked them — with fatal results . |
| 10 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 11 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 12 | Which is n't actually hard but I have to write it down as well . |
| 13 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 14 | He is persistently encouraged to see himself rather as the person responsible for seeing that learning happens . |
| 15 | Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’ |
| 16 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |
| 17 | Well I think we can arrange to pick you up as we go at that time , you 'll of eh , because I know that bus passes do n't cover that . |
| 18 | Would we want to rule him out as being conscious , on the grounds that the above condition is a necessary one ? |
| 19 | If you are faced with this , the only thing to do is to refuse to be drawn into any fruitless arguments , but stand firm in your resolve to leave when you feel you must , assuring her of your affection and concern for her and your intention to visit her again as soon as you can . |
| 20 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 21 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 22 | I 've had the front hub off and checked it all , renewing the gasket but still it seems to be losing oil.l hope you can help as I do n't really want to get the garage to sort it out as it will cost a small fortune . |
| 23 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 24 | It is no surprise that Tanzania is the first country in Africa to introduce a less centralised and examination-oriented system of selection for secondary schools and that Zambia intends soon to follow suit , nor that Kenya and Ghana are much concerned with giving primary leavers the skill and the incentive to set themselves up as entrepreneurs when they leave school . |
| 25 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 26 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 27 | ‘ Some people have wanted to sack me almost as long as I remember , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ Partly that , though I gather the police have n't been able to trace her whereabouts as yet . |
| 29 | So that an angry customer in Donegal will get exactly the same wording to calm him down as he would in Cork or Wexford . |
| 30 | Simultaneously the status of the professional improved as players began to assert themselves not as ‘ club servants ’ or ‘ skilled workmen ’ but as entertainers who should be paid in accordance with their market value . |