Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 2 | As seen from the United States both Japan and western Europe welcomed the American deregulatory tide of 1975 onwards as offering a freer flow into the US market . |
| 3 | [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers . |
| 4 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 5 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
| 6 | Due to ignorance about the local language , the slogan was expressed in Chinese so as to mean ‘ Pepsi re-awakens your dead relatives ’ . |
| 7 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
| 8 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 9 | I watched a girl in front of me trying to hop from one patch to another so as to avoid ducking the two strips of leather somebody had sold her as shoes . |
| 10 | The aim of structural fire precautions is to limit the spread of fire within the building or from one building to another so as to minimize the risk to life . |
| 11 | The whole object of sex is to have unlike acting on unlike so as to make possible the production of unlike offspring , thus allowing for adaptive change , Darwin argues . |
| 12 | Yalta was condemned by many afterwards as marking a Western betrayal of eastern Europe , as grave as Munich in 1938 : Roosevelt , in his eagerness to secure world peace , was duped , it was said , by Stalin . |