Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , divisional management could now bargain as stand-alone units , freed from corporate direction . |
| 2 | Finally , it is possible to reverse the flow of the argument and consider whether the attention paid to what some will regard as mere wrecks of humanity , quite apart from the treatment of human corpses , is not exaggeratedly sentimental . |
| 3 | Much may hinge upon points that the typical executive might understandably regard as irritating technicalities . |
| 4 | It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary . |
| 5 | Dogs which reach , say , six months of age without human contact may behave as wild animals . ’ |
| 6 | The second is the size and shape of the potential energy well that determines bond rotation , for without rotation the polymer chains would behave as rigid rods and rubbers , for example , would not exist . |
| 7 | Which only goes to show ( so it is said ) that existential propositions are general propositions , or else they do not qualify as genuine propositions at all . |
| 8 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 9 | However , many IMRO members do name the accounts for whom they want the firm to deal and these accounts can therefore qualify as indirect customers . |
| 10 | The nature of the cellular changes responsible for tissue differentiation are not well understood , but at the cellular level they do qualify as hereditary changes : each kind of cell gives rise to its own kind at cell division . |
| 11 | They can be objects of thought-acts in reflective consciousness , but they do not qualify as ontological existents . |
| 12 | This immediately creates some problems , since " codes " for this purpose are social constructs , and do not necessarily coincide with what linguists would recognise as discrete languages . |
| 13 | [ But ] we must recognise as competing rights only the rights of other members of society as individuals . |
| 14 | Too short a list means that the input words will quite often be missed , and too long a list can mean that the list of allowable candidate strings is vast , and will often contain words that most people would not recognise as English words . |
| 15 | At each stage , yields will fall as economic transactors adjust to the ‘ disturbance ’ through the purchase of close substitutes . |
| 16 | It is a visible sign of Nizan 's recognition that abstract literary theories can at most act as general guidelines for the creative writer , and that the cultural specificity of the French national context can not be obliterated beneath a hegemonic Soviet model . |
| 17 | Studies of pronuclear division in fertilized eggs are useful for assessing the primary level of chromosome abnormalities , some of which may act as zygotic lethals or become disguised in subsequent cleavages . |
| 18 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 19 | The DOE has been interpreted as showing that expectancies can act as effective cues in the control of choice responding ( e.g. Peterson and Trapold 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Bitterness , anger and resentment can act as emotional cancers , eating us up inside . |
| 21 | Halogen atoms may also act as bridging ligands , sometimes forming simple dimers such as , and sometimes giving extended polymers such as [ ] . |
| 22 | If clients are better able to use another office , the team will direct them to it rather than act as key workers . |
| 23 | Watkins also considered that stone circles and henges could act as terminal points . |
| 24 | ‘ Fiona says we can all fit in the Volvo , ’ Rebecca announced , ‘ but Rupert says he does n't see why they should act as bloody chauffeurs for their friends all the bloody time . ’ |
| 25 | For example in a flat or apartment , you could buy chairs that would act as occasional chairs ; have them covered in the sort of colour that will go in every room and they can then be distributed throughout the flat and brought together as and when needed . |
| 26 | They may act as presidential emissaries to the largely autonomous empires of the bureaucracy and try to instil some loyalty to the programme of the President in their department . |
| 27 | The description given of the family is full of these subjective statements , many of which can act as red herrings . |
| 28 | Headmen were inclined to use police powers in their own interests rather than act as bureaucratic tools . |
| 29 | The team at Osmania University investigated the possibility that fingertip and palmar patterns may somehow act as genetic markers of susceptibility to duodenal ulcers . |
| 30 | This problem has been reduced now that schools are required to make some attempt at formulating longer-term school development plans , although it is accepted that they will act as flexible guidelines . |