Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim was to reach students in the Fourth to Sixth Form age group by setting up workshops and visits to the Hayward Gallery , persuading professional photographers to go to as many schools as possible to talk about their own work and the Magnum show , and encouraging ‘ young hopefuls ’ to shoot and print some of their own work . |
| 2 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 3 | The committee recommends that the boards of all listed companies should comply with the code and encourages as many other companies as possible to aim at meeting its requirements . |
| 4 | At the same meeting Vial was asked to move into the house , and to procure such temporary assistance as necessary to prepare for reading lectures in October . |
| 5 | The court concluded this part of its judgment by explaining why it regarded the discretionary powers of the trial judge as insufficient to safeguard against an abuse of the power of interrogation , and by stating , at p. 740 : |
| 6 | Erm , but I think P , er , budget review , or somebody needs to have a look at it , if you 've got budget review and you 've got people who , most of the people who were on the old working party know the background there anyway , seems as good a place as any to look at it . |
| 7 | Shepherd merely took advantage of his right as equal to appeal to us . |
| 8 | Write the letters of CHRISTMAS down on a sheet of paper , then try to think of as many things as possible to do with the Christmas season which begin with each of the letters . |
| 9 | It must surely be much more pleasant and by no means as painful to work with friendly and docile ferrets . |
| 10 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 11 | In both primary and secondary schools there is a need for as highly qualified teachers as possible to act as coordinators , helping and encouraging those whose main expertise lies elsewhere . |
| 12 | We would like to ask everyone in the Secondary Schools of Edinburgh to join in by encouraging as many students and teachers as possible to travel to school by bicycle that day . |
| 13 | That is why , in the defence estimates debate on 14 October 1991 , my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) said : ’ We should be careful to preserve the opportunity for as many of our civilians as possible to serve in the volunteer forces . ’ |
| 14 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 15 | We are planning to feature the spread of Medau throughout the country in the Souvenir Programme for our 40th Anniversary Celebrations , and need as much historical background as possible to link into current activities . |
| 16 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 17 | Since Yugoslav support for the Soviet navy is based less on coordination in security policy than on commercial interest it is not regarded by Belgrade as likely to lead towards a form of alignment with Moscow . |
| 18 | On May 28 in a speech to the UNIP national council , Kaunda again criticized the multiparty system as likely to lead to " tribal conflicts " , but promised that there would be a free vote in the nationwide referendum which he proposed should be held on the issue [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 19 | Lawrence said : ‘ I would regard Pears as odds-on to play against Charlton at Upton Park . |
| 20 | This idea of a compact should be extended to ET graduates , the aim being to encourage as many employers as possible to recruit from among ET leavers with the appropriate qualifications . |
| 21 | In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease . |
| 22 | In the imperial affair the first person to act on behalf of the pope was Monaco de Villa , a Milanese , who had been appointed by Otto as plenipotentiary to deal with the pope . |