Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy .
2 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 .
3 The great crusades of the 1880s over child prostitution sometimes answered as much to middle-class anxieties as to gross sexual exploitation .
4 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 .
5 I classify seven words as indicating probable problems with reading , because they are the kind of errors younger children would be expected to make : fritend , herd , crecher , dangrus , tow ( two ) , mac , mec ( make ) .
6 Forms of government intervention in other societies are seen by Marxists as reflecting varying degrees of class forces .
7 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 .
8 A later study by Jacobson and Aaker ( 1985 ) examines this proposition and runs regressions including ROI from earlier periods as lagged independent variables as surrogates for other factors which could be giving rise to the positive association between market share and ROI .
9 Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies .
10 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 .
11 Kendall ( 1975 ) draws a contrast between continental European unions and those not only in the United States but also in Britain , unlike many observers who regard the latter two countries as displaying important similarities .
12 The Jersey is certainly recognised in tropical countries as giving better results than other temperate breeds .
13 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 .
14 Fig. 1 ( b ) Proceed with the excavation , leaving marginal shelves as required 23 cm ( 9 in ) wide and 23 cm ( 9 in ) below water level .
15 Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized .
16 Whitehall sources believe he is much more likely to have been concerned with such humdrum matters as integrating inter-departmental communications to prepare the ground for Civil Service computerization .
17 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 .
18 Our results , therefore , agree with those of previous investigators who have noted that parietal cells are present in fetal stomachs from 11 gestational weeks as differentiated epithelial cells which represent adult parietal cells in both structure and histochemical staining .
19 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 .
20 We will first view organisations as having three layers of management because this traditional view proves useful as a basis for analysis .
21 However , neither constituency MdBs nor list MdBs have quite the same conception of their responsibilities as do British MPs .
22 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 .
23 Chemical companies have changed dramatically over the past 100 years as have public attitudes towards chemical issues .
24 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 .
25 To land : are conventionally defined by national regulations as requiring special treatments or disposal procedures .
26 The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ .
27 Others criticised the changes as reducing patient choice .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Left sided lesions may impair the former , leaving intact such well practised actions as writing one s name and address ( Luria , Simernitskaya and Tybulevich , 1970 ; Simernitskaya , 1974 ) .
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