Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Both Kepler Wessels and Adrian Kuiper , the respective captains , scored centuries as did Western Province opener Terence Lazard while World Cup squad batsman Mark Rushmere was also in the runs . |
2 | The great crusades of the 1880s over child prostitution sometimes answered as much to middle-class anxieties as to gross sexual exploitation . |
3 | The pupils falling into the category of persistent truants were described by experienced staff in the case-study schools as exhibiting one symptom of deep-rooted social , emotional or economic problems . |
4 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
5 | This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force . |
6 | However , the integral approach does tend to lead to an emphasis on the similarities of business and non-business financial reporting ; this is in contrast to the differential approach which tends to accept the dissimilarities as having equal importance . |
7 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
8 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
9 | The person whom we regard from our earliest years as wielding such power , the first person we realise as affecting our lives from outside us is the parent . |
10 | They may feel responsible for the racial injustice which other white people have inflicted on blacks , and see these injustices as entailing all manner of pathology for the black community , with its strengths and survival denied or not recognised . |
11 | Others criticised the changes as reducing patient choice . |
12 | Employers should consider the introduction of , or extension of , a " suggestions " scheme to include computer programs or systems written by staff who are not employed to do this , with effective rewards and suitable provisions as regards ultimate ownership . |
13 | Thus it is not clear what it would be like to regard all actions as requiring non-intentional explanation , and this makes it much harder for the individualist to argue that , whatever it would be like , it is out of the question . |
14 | in such a condition , there is no place for industry ; because the fruit thereof is uncertain : and consequently no culture of the earth ; no navigation , nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea ; no commodious buildings ; no instruments of moving , and removing , such things as require much force ; no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all , continual fear , and danger of violent death ; and the life of man , solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short . |
15 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
16 | The argument was that fiscal and monetary policies could be used to achieve the government 's objectives as regards full employment and the balance of payments ( although such policies were not very successful in that they gave rise to stop — go ) , and that incomes policies could be used to contain the inflationary consequences . |
17 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
18 | Each village had a headman , but tribal cohesion was apparent only in such co-operative ventures as organising large war , hunting or gathering parties . |
19 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
20 | These laws require different ( specific ) standards , different methods of finance and cite different government departments as having overall responsibility for parts of the services . |
21 | With this is mind the Committee voted in favour ( 7:6 ) for the draft rules which classed all members other than Juniors as having full bondholding voting rights and responsibilities . |
22 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
23 | The view also implies that the teacher is seen by pupils as having total responsibility for leading and controlling the work that is going on in the classroom . |
24 | Women , though at one time excluded from most public functions , were never by reason merely of their sex in a substantially different position from men as regards criminal liability , property and contract , if we except the rule ( now nearly obsolete ) which prefers males to females in the succession to real estate on intestacy . |
25 | Bouton and King ( 1983 ) interpret their results as showing that context-specificity will be evident only when there is some ambiguity about the CS that the contextual cues help to resolve . |
26 | Prior to the moratorium on meetings , the committee had highlighted the following issues as meriting urgent attention : ( 1 ) the need for " more information about what other departments could get out of the resources now that there was considerable potential " ; |
27 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
28 | Since prosopagnosia has been associated with right hemisphere damage on purely clinical grounds ( Hécaen and Angelergues , 1962 ; Warrington and James , 1967 ; but see Cole and Perez-Cruet , 1964 ) it is reasonable to interpret the post-mortem findings as confirming this association . |
29 | I REFER to the comments made by an anonymous smoker who mistakenly tried to justify smokers as paying more tax indirectly due to higher Government levy on cigarettes . |
30 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |