Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 2 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 3 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 4 | In terms of research procedure the project was envisaged as having three stages . |
| 5 | Atomism made sense of the language of chemistry in that , if each symbol is understood as representing one atom , one can ask questions about how they are arranged ; if the symbols merely represent numbers , equivalent weights , then everything is much more abstract . |
| 6 | Whilst the 60MHz iteration ca n't be clocked any faster , the 66MHz mask is designed to go to 100MHz and it is this part , touted as providing two-to-three times the performance of the 80486 , which Intel will use as a springboard for the launch of other Pentium family members — see back page . |
| 7 | The assay was standardised against a pool of normal adult human serum defined as containing 1.0 U IGF-I/ml ( equivalent to 159 ng/ml of a highly purified preparation of IGF-I ) . |
| 8 | Writing out 1500 index cards is just as time consuming as producing 1500 letters . |
| 9 | A clause would not normally be construed as allowing one party to render no performance at all , as such a clause would undermine the main purpose of the contract . |
| 10 | This pattern was traditionally expounded as involving four kinds of reality : literal historical truth ; allegorical significance in the way in which events in the Old Testament are fulfilled by those in the New and in the life of the Church ; moral teaching ( labelled troplogical interpretation ) ; and fourthly , anagogical understanding relating to ultimate spiritual realities — this is particularly important for mystical works . |
| 11 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 12 | The number of PW involved is colossal , amounting , in von Seeler 's own estimate , to some 30,000 men , composed as follows 10,000 Germans … 13,000 Slovenes All front line fighters . |
| 13 | A map is most easily conceived as having two co-ordinates , like longitude and latitude on customary human maps . |
| 14 | In 1379 , when Richard II levied poll tax to pay for his wars with the French , Skelton was recorded as having 137 people over the age of 15 years . |
| 15 | After the Reverend Whickens came the Reverends Gwillam , Price and Jenning , and in 1840 , when the Reverend Lee was in charge , the village is recorded as having 148 inhabitants , and ‘ The living … endowed with the rectorial tithes , with the perpetual curacy of Bartestree united , and valued in the King 's books at £4. 6s. 8d. ; present net income , £284 . ’ |
| 16 | The development of databases is sometimes perceived as having three generations : |
| 17 | These segments of society have been regarded as constituting one side of a dual labour-market ( Lever , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Changes designed to improve education can therefore be regarded as having two sources : those initiated by decision makers at local or national level ; those initiated by teachers . |
| 19 | Where first class post is used , the document is treated as served two days after it was posted . |
| 20 | Where second class post is used , the document is treated as served four days after it was posted ( r 12.10 . ) . |
| 21 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |
| 22 | A sixteen-year-old boy is described as earning 2s 6d ( 12½p ) and one of thirteen 1s 6d ( 7½p ) , " but not constantly " . |
| 23 | BIE was described as employing 600 agents in tapping the telephones of politicians , the clergy , business people , trade unionists and other " relevant " personalities . |
| 24 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |