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 | 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 . |
| 9 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 10 | He is persistently encouraged to see himself rather as the person responsible for seeing that learning happens . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 14 | ‘ Some people have wanted to sack me almost as long as I remember , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This survey shows it is possible for sufferers to help themselves effectively as our programme has proved . |
| 16 | More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients . |
| 17 | Capirossi realises the pressures of success could so easily damage his plans to retain the 125 crown , and so he 's all the more determined to do everything just as he did in 1990 . |
| 18 | It has to do something else as well . |
| 19 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 20 | I decided to leave it , to leave it just as it was , as I had remembered it . |
| 21 | Ruth could imagine him at sale rooms , carefully handling dusty china , gently touching worn , cracked furniture , grey eyes seeming to question himself inwardly as he gazed ; he would rarely fail , she thought , in spotting what was truly valuable . |
| 22 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |
| 23 | I wanted to keep her exactly as she was up until her retirement years ago , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 24 | I 'll try to keep her here as long as I can if it will help . ’ |
| 25 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 26 | Today their conversation was solely work , and both seemed happy to keep it so as they made their way to the circuit . |
| 27 | She is therefore able to expel it just as soon as the chance arises . |
| 28 | We see it in brilliant colours which flow through the whole spectrum , and extend to dayglo ; but it starts life in a natural tone , initially floppy until the grippers or stenters pierce the outer edges to stretch it flat as it is heat treated , and dyed . |
| 29 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 30 | He thought he 'd like to see her again as long as she did n't whinge too much about sexism . |