Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has led some economists to rule out or substantially to downgrade price as a factor [ Caves , 1968 ; Posner and Steer , 1979 ] . |
| 2 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 3 | The desire to get land to cultivate as a farmer and proprietor or simply to get work as a landless labourer drew people to the islands in large numbers . |
| 4 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 5 | We wish to see all pupils having the opportunity to study balanced science as 20 per cent of the curriculum and also to include technology as a core subject . |
| 6 | Stanley William Hayter is broadly acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century printmaking , on three counts : his technical innovations , especially in intaglio colour printing ; the encouragement of artists from Miró to Pollock and beyond to treat printmaking as a means of original expression ( rather than just a way of reproducing images ) ; and a remarkable body of prints produced over six decades , which attest to his broad interests in mythology , the workings of the unconscious , and the new mathematics . |