Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left him lying there and went down to say good night , treading on the paint at the side of the stairs to spare the carpet as Mr Evans had told her to do . |
| 2 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 3 | The boys not scribing joined in by offering ideas and producing elaborate pictures , inventing new details to enliven the narrative as they developed their pictures . |
| 4 | The proposal to restore the provost as local civic figurehead raises the prospect of restoring a position to the region 's small towns and burghs which was lost in the 1975 reforms . |
| 5 | The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections . |
| 6 | I would ask this committee to keep this in the programme and to monitor the situation as it goes along . |
| 7 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 8 | Church music , he said , was ‘ both apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and despair , forcible to draw forth tears of devotion … able to move and to moderate all affections ’ . |
| 9 | The ability of a resort to quicken the pulse as I approach . |
| 10 | The most obvious solution was simply to cancel the operation as the weather was totally unsuitable for parachuting . |
| 11 | According to ancient custom it would be possible for Sarah as wife to claim the child as her own . |
| 12 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 13 | He 's there to enforce the law as well as serve the local community . |
| 14 | I have suggested already that neither assurances , nor probably even ‘ Declarations ’ , are deemed by the Court of Justice to affect the law as defined by the Treaty of Rome , as amended . |
| 15 | A further advantage of choosing a fish-only system is that you do n't need to extend your mortgage to light the aquarium as is necessary with photosynthetic ( light loving ) invertebrates such as corals and anemones which require high-intensity expensive lighting systems . |
| 16 | Far below the windows of the suite , the jungle exhaled mists of early morning to dazzle the eye as the sun brightened . |
| 17 | To promote the learner as subject , Freire proposes a dialogue approach in which everyone participates as co-learners to understand and create a jointly constructed reality . |
| 18 | By presenting this vision the artist hopes to reveal a different perspective and to enrich the viewer as well as herself ’ . |
| 19 | Again unfortunately the only thing lacking was people , but perhaps in Monday we picked a bad night to sample the crack as locals tell me the place livens up as the weekend approaches . |
| 20 | He did n't actually have to run his finger along the line in order to make sense of it , but he did like to mouth the words as he got to them . |
| 21 | I am , however , less concerned about Tory claims of vindication than about what Labour voters — the great majority of whom have no wish to embrace the SNP as prodigal brothers — make of it . |
| 22 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 23 | To the extent that people are prepared to accept that there is a crisis of capitalism there is a great tendency to see the problem as comparable to a machine breaking down ; either there is not enough oil , or else a part needs to be replaced or else some bolt needs to be tightened . |
| 24 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 25 | The consultant needs to see the relatives as well as the patient and take time to explain what the treatment is for , what its effects are and about the side-effects . |
| 26 | But it would be wrong , at least at the secondary level , to see the fragmentation as somehow the fault of narrow , self-interested teachers . |
| 27 | It would be a good solution to see the orcs as multiplying ‘ like flies ’ , i.e. non-sexually , in hatcheries in Barad-dûr or Moria or the pits of Angband . |
| 28 | Officers were quick to accept this role , and tended to see the army as , in the words of one officer , ‘ the only selfless people in Libya ’ , certainly in the vanguard of revolutionary education . |
| 29 | Where they reported that they were able to see the present as better , existing symptoms were lower than average . |
| 30 | Neither is it acceptable to see the state as entirely dependent on monopoly capital as some Marxists still suggest . |