Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Logan was keen to court that generation both as readers and as potential writers .
2 The problem is how to conduct economic policy so as to reconcile full employment and price stability .
3 We 've got to continue that restraint even as things start to get better , and that means restraints from the top to the bottom , from board room to shop floor .
4 By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications .
5 Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed .
6 However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) .
7 Since to have sexual intercourse without her consent is to do her great harm , it is not unjust for the law to require that he inquire carefully into consent and , it may be added , process that information carefully as well .
8 Compaq , it seems , had no stomach for a MIPS-only menu , and SCO found that prospect just as unappealing .
9 We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities .
10 Where the share in goodwill has been purchased from the outgoing partner ( sed quaere where goodwill has been excluded from the purchased share or been valued at nil ) , even in the absence of a specific agreement , the law offers limited protection particularly as regards the solicitation of existing clients ( see Trego v Hunt [ 1896 ] AC 7 and Churton v Douglas ( 1859 ) Johns 174 ) .
11 Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ .
12 It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident .
13 The case caused much discussion especially as it could scarcely be said that his activity was directly connected with his duties as a judge .
14 Laing rejected classical psychoanalysis just as quantum theory rejected classical physics .
15 It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts .
16 They split the 50 minutes of observing time into 5-second units and classified each period either as ‘ infant acts ’ , ‘ mother acts ’ , ‘ both act ’ , or ‘ both quiescent ’ .
17 I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale .
18 Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me
19 Those consequences can be avoided ( and Community law respected ) in so far as national courts interpret national legislation so as to comply with the terms of the directive in question .
20 The social chapter would not provide any protection here as pay policy is excluded , apart from the equal pay issue ; but in terms of social security and employment conditions , it would be an important advance .
21 He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’
22 Suppose you know that tune well as well .
23 Suppose you know that song well as well ?
24 There were lights at regular intervals in the ceiling , with patches of shadow in between , and stripes of light and dark followed each other overhead as they trundled her along .
25 That Franco would tolerate political diversity only as long as it offered no real competition to his hegemony was revealed by an incident which occurred in February 1946 .
26 But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns .
27 It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials .
28 But we should note , too , that language development itself , the acquisition of knowledge of symbolic meanings , is activated by the need to extend schematic knowledge so as to cope more effectively with the social environment .
29 Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly .
30 The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank .
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