Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investors do not perceive the warranties as providing them with a course of action , but as a way for management to confirm the business plan and the facts of the accountants ' report ; and provide as much information as possible about the business to be purchased . |
| 2 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 3 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 4 | Prior to 1910 it was by no means clear either that Labour would replace the Liberals or that it would move So far ahead of these rivals as to reduce them to marginal sects . |
| 5 | I had thought of the Hobbses as shielding me like parents , but the nursery comfort was illusory . |
| 6 | They see society and human action as being structured by social rules and values , and portray social systems as reproducing themselves via socialization — the transmission of social values to new generations through the family , the educational system and so on . |