Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise government would lose its power to control people 's behaviour , and this would obviously make the community as a whole worse off . |
| 2 | Users of desktop publishing systems looking to provide the same interconnectivity generally find that , at best , the software will only recognise the network as a path for transferring files and , more usually , that it simply wo n't work at all . |
| 3 | The latter is calibrated in centimetres , but most people will probably only use the rod as a rough guide . |
| 4 | This conclusion underlines yet again that there are wicked people , whereas a more structural analysis of this would perhaps see the behaviour as a logical extension of the search for profits . |
| 5 | The rice and other crops produced by the peasantry did not merely keep the population as a whole alive ; rice was also the cornerstone of the formal political and economic organization of the country , at both national and local levels . |
| 6 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said : ‘ The authorities had better clarify the position as rapidly as possible . |
| 7 | ONCE UPON a time , the government of Norway promised that it would not only protect the wolf as an endangered species , but even maintain a breeding population of the beast . |
| 8 | According to comments made by Hurd , this might not necessarily involve the PLO as a negotiating partner and Israel would not be forced to attend a peace conference or to accept an independent Palestinian state as part of any ultimate solution . |
| 9 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 10 | If they are fatally damaged when attacked , their deaths do not affect the population as a whole because they have already bred and are no longer doing so . |
| 11 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 12 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 13 | Of those who apply , three quarters do not make the grade as potential pilot material . |
| 14 | But he does not regard the charge as a serious objection to his theory . |
| 15 | Though a foul is not intended , the referee will nevertheless regard the technique as an attack on the opponent 's joint and the competitor may face a penalty . |
| 16 | A qualified judgement was submitted by UNTCOK : the results were accepted as valid in those areas visited by members of the commission but UNTCOK did not recognise the assembly as a national assembly , which could lead to the formation of a national government . |
| 17 | They knew the same kinds of altered states of consciousness — could they not recognise the mediums as their allies rather than their enemies ? |
| 18 | But the movement to the Right took far longer than this implies ; Wordsworth continued to admire Charles James Fox , the Whig leader , although Fox was in favour of making peace with Napoleon , but after visiting France in 1802 Wordsworth could not stomach the Whigs as a party . |
| 19 | The certificates they obtain do not specify the centre as Maidstone Prison ; they can be safely shown to employers and are much prized . |
| 20 | Naturally he would stress the difference between phalanx and legion in a war between Macedonians and Romans ( 18.28 ) , but he would not present the war as a conflict between Macedonian monarchy and the Roman mixed constitution . |
| 21 | Pupils are tempted not to do the job properly because they do not see the work as proper' maths . |
| 22 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |
| 23 | On the Conservative side this element is based in the Smoking Room , and is composed of the men with estates or directorships who do not see the House as their primary source of prestige or income . |
| 24 | Simpson does not see the acquisition as an exercise in corporate break-up . |
| 25 | She had to admit that he would almost certainly not see the situation as an unmitigated disaster . |
| 26 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 27 | ‘ Publishers should no longer see the sale as a way of trying to sell the unsaleable , ’ said BML . |
| 28 | You can not use the masks as an oracle if one of them is missing . ’ |
| 29 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 30 | A stack of debris was cleared to provide agents an unobstructed view of the compound and drums of diesel and petrol were eliminated so the cult could not use the fuel as an incendiary device , Ricks said . |