Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 2 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 3 | Apart from liking London bands such as the Stones and the Kinks , for some reason I always had a working knowledge of the Small Faces . |
| 4 | He also organised fund raising exercises such as the Big Push from Wembley to Manchester to raise money to take 100 people , mostly disabled , on an adventure holiday in Austria . |
| 5 | So matters such as the teaching process ( Is the student given sufficient autonomy ? ) — the fundamental aims of the course ( Is the course designed to promote the student 's general education ? |
| 6 | The principles can be applied to ellipsoids , sausage forms , barrel vaults and rings such as the torus . |
| 7 | BATTERED AND BRUISED IRISH Mick Galwey holds firm as the All Black pack — with no.8 Arran Pene to the fore here — fails to click in Dunedin during the First Test . |
| 8 | Quisling stands supreme as the synonym for traitor . |
| 9 | Our million dollar white knuckle rides such as the wet and wild Great Niagara Rapids , the awesome Missile and the hair-raising Runaway Train will have you screaming for more . |
| 10 | This level continues the programme of revision and extension in Headway Intermediate , but aims to extend the students ' understanding of English grammar by dealing with more complex tenses and language points such as the perfect tenses and idioms . |
| 11 | The brewers say they support sensible drinking and brews such as the Summer Ale fit the bill … |
| 12 | ( Some of the LIFESPAN administrative activities require you to set your default to SYS$LIFESPAN : , hence the example uses this as the LIFESPAN Manager 's default directory ) . |
| 13 | Sherman describes this as the ‘ vicious circle of increasing incompetence ’ . |
| 14 | Barker ( 1984 ) describes this as the ‘ interactive stage ’ which follows the initial ‘ passive stage ’ and is followed by the ‘ active stage ’ in which the researcher may start conducting interviews with some of the people being studied , provided of course that the role is overt . |
| 15 | We 've now got a good package which saves us nearly eighty thousand pounds and to actually undo all of that and create an awful lot of public disquiet plus a problem with regard to potential redundancy to particular saving that accommodates this as the absolutely completely inane and except for where it came from , I would be gobsmacked if it came tonight . |
| 16 | It can be used when studying specific paddle strokes such as the low brace , forward paddling and bow rudder but is best used as an average overall measure of the paddlers style . |
| 17 | We submit that even scores such as the Glasgow coma scale and the Apgar score , which are assumed to be independent of medical management , may , in fact , be susceptible to a similar effect to that demonstrated with APACHE scoring . |
| 18 | It could have been made by the indigenous people immediately after the conquest , or alternatively features such as the teeth could have been cut much later on the head . |
| 19 | It is likely that many secret societies of women have met at night , and in Western Europe the controversial tradition of witchcraft certainly uses night-time as the appropriate part of the day for work . |
| 20 | Gale 's Application [ 1991 ] , discussed above confirms this as the correct approach . |
| 21 | Daedalus sees this as the basis of a splendid new pictorial technology . |
| 22 | In fact he sees this as the key to negotiating success . |
| 23 | The issue of the SHHD building Note would appear to confirm that the Scottish Office sees this as the way forward . |
| 24 | The Society sees this as the best protection against the exclusion of some firms from franchising and against any attempt to force them to tender for legal aid work on the basis of price . |
| 25 | A firm believer in developing a strong teamwork concept , he works best in a team structure and sees this as the best way to tackle key issues . |
| 26 | The last use is the basis of the major work in this field , the treatment by Laver ( 1968 , 1980 ) ; if one adopts this as the meaning of ‘ voice quality ’ it is preferable to use the term ‘ phonation type ’ ( see Catford , 1964 ) for ( ii ) , and in any case I would prefer to use ‘ personal speaker characteristics ’ for ( i ) . |
| 27 | You may also qualify for a Mobility Allowance to help pay transport costs such as the Road Tax , or other grants such as an interest-free loan towards the purchase of a new car . |
| 28 | There are additional potential post-transition costs such as the possibility that socialism might be more inefficient than capitalism . |
| 29 | Housing authorities throughout Britain are required to develop housing plans or strategies which encompass the private sector , and many central government concerns such as the amount of Green Belt land to be made available to developers can be elucidated by the use of local market models . |
| 30 | But although Paul has been a guest on television shows such as the Hot Chefs and Master Chef , ‘ Gourmet Ireland ’ — a 15 part series due to be screened throughout the UK next year — offered the husband and wife team a new presenters ' role . |