Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 2 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 3 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 4 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 5 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 6 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 7 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 8 | Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company . |
| 9 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 10 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 11 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 12 | by the loading or unloading of a vehicle so far as concerns loading or unloading risk cover by a Motor Policy ; or |
| 13 | ‘ I am very far from saying that in every case in which a child is proving difficult to manage , a parent is entitled to strike the child so hard as to cause injuries of the kind in this case . |
| 14 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 15 | " From this resolution of the Presbytery Mr Pearson asked to leave the chair , which was granted , to enter his dissent so far as regards Mr Charles McNeill . " |
| 16 | We can think of the electron not only as going through both slits but also as following paths both direct and indirect , moving both rapidly and slowly . |
| 17 | It is very important that you visit and write to or phone your child as regularly as agreed . |
| 18 | Like every other class and institution , the nobility was tested in the crisis of 1808 and the French invasion : it does not seem to have failed in this test as completely as has been asserted . |
| 19 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |
| 20 | Consultations at the highest political level shall take place as often as required , and at least once a year . |
| 21 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 22 | For Christie 's , such sales help raise our European profile as well as assert London as an international centre of the art market . |
| 23 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 24 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 25 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 26 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and puts WABI behind the eight ball as far as staying current with Windows development , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 27 | If the mother or anyone else connected with the birthing process shows any signs of lack of trust , anxiety , fear , pain , etc. take one dose as often as needed , perhaps as often as every 10 minutes , of Rescue Remedy ( one of the Bach Flower remedies ) . |
| 28 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 29 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The discovery that he will have to master house-training as well as overcome serious temperament problems makes it a difficult task . |