Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the economics of bulk sales improve — Chemical reckons that the bulk-discount has fallen sharply as the property market has revived — Citicorp considers it worth sticking with property in order to help create a liquid market in it . |
| 2 | When we turn to trade in services it is no surprise to find that the UK 's net income from financial services has grown dramatically as the City 's banking and financial business has grown . |
| 3 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 4 | Chamberlain may have shrunk visibly as the clouds across the face of Europe had grown darker , but the British people had taken a different path . |
| 5 | It was a delicious quirk of fate that this situation should have arisen even as the legal action with Sting loomed on the near horizon . |
| 6 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 7 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 8 | Within minutes the noise level had increased perceptibly as the champagne began to have its effect . |
| 9 | Admittedly the army had stood aside as the monarchy fell in April 1931 , but its acceptance of the Republic was anything but unrestrained . |
| 10 | Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect . |
| 11 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 12 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 13 | These handicaps have increased steadily as the EC becomes more supranational . |
| 14 | An unquizzical synthesis of the fabliaux " explicit morals produces at best an alternative moral scheme to that which was conventional in the Christian Middle Ages — and is still , largely , conventional today ; a scheme that various critics have described either as the morality of efficacy , the liberation of the instinct , a morality of pleasure , hedonistic materialism , or pragmatic warnings of the need to avoid deception and the promise or threat of retributive justice . |