Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congestion with throbbing all over and burning ; blood vessels throb and pulsate as do local inflammations ; hammering pains in the head if they move . |
| 2 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 3 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 4 | He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms . |
| 5 | They behave much as do similar characters found in the epics of other nations . |
| 6 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 7 | ‘ To us it 's as simple as writing good tunes and having fun , ’ he begins weakly . |
| 8 | James Stephen saw abolition in 1807 as having world-wide consequences as well as setting in train ‘ by slow but inevitable steps ’ the extinction of British colonial slavery . |
| 9 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 10 | I simply said I could n't picture you doing anything as unglamorous as helping wee ones count to ten . ’ |
| 11 | Programmes of study should be so constructed as to give all pupils the opportunity to enjoy work in a wide range of literary forms . |
| 12 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 13 | NCR is expected to position Top End 2.0 as protecting current investments in IBM Corp hardware and software , including CICS environments , and easing the transition from legacy systems . |
| 14 | For example , in In re Tucker ( R. C. ) ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Tucker ( K. R. ) [ 1990 ] Ch. 148 , where the application of the Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 principle was urged , this court declined to construe the words ‘ any person ’ in section 25 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as embracing British subjects wherever they might be , and held that the power given to the court by that section to summon persons before it was even more limited and extended only to persons who were available to be served in England . |
| 15 | The supply of left-handed clubs is so insufficient as to deter those left-handers who may be considering taking up the sport . |
| 16 | Hence if shares are given a preferential dividend they are presumed to be non-participating as regards further dividends , and if they are given a preferential right to a return of capital they are presumed to be non-participating in surplus assets . |
| 17 | As Alexander ( 1982 , p. 30 ) notes , agency agreements , superimposed ‘ on an already complicated allocation ’ of local authority functions , have added to the confusion experienced by consumers in service provision and ‘ ensured that the processes of public accountability and democratic control would be so convoluted as to raise serious doubts about their effectiveness ’ . |
| 18 | This is why answering doubt is not the same as dispensing theological prescriptions . |
| 19 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 20 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 21 | This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process . |
| 22 | I have argued throughout this paper against the various theories that hold that human aggression is so formidable as to require special mechanisms for handling or redirection . |
| 23 | That 's sufficient in law , although at least 20 years is desirable as validating old recitals of title , etc . |