Example sentences of "[adv] as [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |
| 2 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 4 | Consider the following final sentences : ( a ) It is tempting to see the Boer War not as ending British Imperialism but as turning its energy inwards . |
| 5 | Kashi was directly in point , but the judgments in that case were treated as statements of the then settled practice and not as declaring any restriction upon the powers of the court . |
| 6 | His men would be watching the road rather than the river , plucking politicians into their net — as Miguelito had boasted — easily as plucking ripe advocados . |
| 7 | Being real is thus seen as one of the defining attributes of God , just as having three sides is one of the defining attributes of a triangle . |
| 8 | Eric Priest has taken over as acting Chief Fire Officer for Cleveland after the retirement of Bill Cooney on health grounds . |
| 9 | Gavin Anderson , director of strategic management of the NHS Management Executive , is to take over as acting chief executive until a successor to Mr Cruickshank is appointed . |
| 10 | The new appointments amounted to a purge of communist apparatchiks , among them Valentin Simonenko who had taken over as acting Prime Minister following Fokin 's resignation and was seen as Kravchuk 's first choice for premier , in favour of nationalists and industrialists . |
| 11 | Stressing the apparent universality , intractability and unacceptability of the problem of violence , the theories prominent in Anglo-Saxon lay ideas focus strongly on the irrationality and bestiality of violence … the approach to violence advocated in the discipline of ethology — in which violence is seen at least partly as having genetic determinants — is rather close to Anglo-Saxon folk ideas . |
| 12 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 13 | Trustees and personal representatives who manage investments ( unless they hold themselves out as providing professional investment services ) . |
| 14 | On inspecting this table we can begin to raise questions about the balance of men and women in secondary school teaching ; especially as far as teaching particular age groups are concerned with more women teaching the younger pupils in middle schools than teaching in comprehensive schools where the complete age range is present . |
| 15 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 16 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 17 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 18 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |
| 19 | In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus . |
| 20 | Elderly people and their families who wish to ‘ go it alone , so far as obtaining outside help is concerned are , of course , quite at liberty to do so , and four of the large organisations who can give advice on a great variety of problems are : |
| 21 | Up to 3,000 students at Bucharest Polytechnic , as well as demanding sweeping changes in education policy , expressed concern that the NSF was dominated by communists who were trying to ensure that they stayed in power by scheduling the elections so that the emerging political parties would have little time to organize . |
| 22 | As well as containing detailed site descriptions and guides , this new addition to the series shows how individual monuments integrated with contemporary society . |
| 23 | Organic farming is better for wild birds as well as producing healthier food for humans , according to early returns from a three-year study by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 24 | It is hoped that achieving greater understanding of people 's ideas on food and health may prove of practical use in seeking to improve diet , as well as refining anthropological methodology and theory in the area of food and diet . |
| 25 | As well as verifying general SVQ programmes , the team of external verifiers provides approval of centre-designed project specifications for the additional assessment . |
| 26 | This is widely recognized as one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the successful implementation of any innovation , and particularly one such as profiling which requires teachers to find time for a new kind of activity , namely one-to-one discussion with pupils , as well as completing detailed records . |
| 27 | Catering manager is Irene Forbes , and she and her staff cater for 350 people in the restaurant , as well as operating vending machines and catering for functions . |
| 28 | The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 . |
| 29 | That 's where Frank Cropper , below , comes in because his role as contracts supervisor includes training floor fitters as well as installing intricate floor designs at major exhibitions . |
| 30 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |