Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reefs soon cease to grow as the poor light transmissions through the murky waters prevents the zooxanthellae actively photosynthesising underlining the vital life-sustaining role sunlight plays in this relationship . |
| 2 | The welcome feature about SuperCalc 5.5 's Fast Graphing facility is that when you include text that you want to use as the first and second titles and as the graph legend in the range you highlight , they will automatically be added to the chart that results when you click on the icon GPH . |
| 3 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 4 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 5 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 6 | I get pigeon-holed as the vulnerable bloke who 's crap at relationships and who 's always arguing with his dad . |
| 7 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 8 | In the minds of men the Created God could , in the course of time , become personified as the immortal keeper of the good which ensures the continuing development of life in accordance with the desired pattern , but that personification should never be allowed to cloud the origins of the Created God , which came from life . |
| 9 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 10 | Neil T U P E regs do apply as the joint G M B T T T & G document clearly outlines . |
| 11 | In fact , it is the facility to achieve high degrees of such co-ordination and control in its complex inter-market organization and state-facilitated integration which many commentators have seen as the strategic edge of Japanese capitalism . |
| 12 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 13 | Furthermore , what I have presented as the Althusserean reply to Connolly emphasises the claim that ISAs constitute subjects , at the expense of the view that they legitimate a mode of production . |
| 14 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well motivated school pupil . |
| 15 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well-motivated school pupil … |
| 16 | A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn . |
| 17 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 18 | The Roman see emerged as the sole religious authority and centre of a barbarian West . |
| 19 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 20 | Subsection ( 2 ) , concerned with payments when administration orders are in force , provides clear support for the view that the draftsman had in mind what I have described as the natural meaning of the word depositor in this context . |
| 21 | Sometimes this way of working is just what health workers have been looking for , but it has to be acknowledged that such an approach does not fit easily with the conventional mode of western medicine and what we have described as the medical model . |