Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian . |
| 2 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 3 | If , like many of us , you ca n't lay hand son the exact title and date of publication DO NOT be deterred but add contextualising detail of the kind which will help librarians as well as researchers to locate the item eg , size ( in a great fat book ) ; colour ( bluey-green cover with photos … ) ; age ( quite old now I suppose , have n't seen it in bookshops for ages … ) . |
| 4 | Optical ( OCR ) characters enable people as well as machines to read the information on the tag . |
| 5 | According to Lotus , it will be a ‘ highly object-oriented ’ implementation , which will include greater networking capabilities — allowing users to contribute data to a single spreadsheet across local and wide area networks — as well as functions to make the changing of macro-languages easier . |
| 6 | To achieve ISO 9000 you must operate a number of general management processes like contract review , purchasing , internal audit , corrective action [ including customer complaints ] , training and statistical review , as well as procedures to control the particular process you operate . |
| 7 | The Temiar transplant young petai ( Parkia speciosa , Leguminosae — grown for their edible seeds ) seedlings into their gardens after the rice harvest and are reliant on bamboo for many purposes : house building , blowpipes and cooking pots for example , as well as knives to cut the umbilical cord in childbirth . |
| 8 | In the event of armed conflicts between different nationalities , the national army " can act independently as mediator to ease the dispute even without being asked to do so by the administrations concerned " . |