Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 2 | Dial the number carefully as this will reduce the likelihood of a wrong number or a misdirected call . |
| 3 | The income from sponsorship should be used to underwrite educational professional activities which benefit the industry generally as well as the Association . |
| 4 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Elsewhere they describe the state simply as ‘ a body of armed men ’ imposing the will of a dominant class on the rest of society by force , as when a proto-class of exploiters first imposes government by a coup on others . |
| 6 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 7 | I remember the incident well as I was an ATCO at Dunsfold at the time . , |
| 8 | It means rather that people act as though they know the principle just as they act as though they know the rules of grammar — though very few people can even begin to formulate them , and nobody can formulate them completely . |
| 9 | So three minutes , set the clock again as you did before and er one other thing I 'd like you to do is as you come up is do something that athletes do huh and that is to er give an affirmation . |
| 10 | We have already seen that the appearance of Dartmoor is man-made ; following woodland clearance the soil degraded , and eventually blanket bog , and possibly a cooler and wetter climate , led people to abandon permanent settlements there and use the moor solely as temporary seasonal pasture ( and later for mining ) . |
| 11 | The conditioner has a single rotor with pivoting U-shaped tines which toss the grass upwards as it leaves the cutting blades . |
| 12 | I now turn to the submission of Woolwich that your Lordships ' House should , despite the authorities to which I have referred , reformulate the law so as to establish that the subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand of tax acquires forthwith a prima facie right in restitution to the repayment of the money . |
| 13 | Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’ |
| 14 | Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’ |
| 15 | As I was saying earlier on , it is a contract a legally binding contract , which does lay down the actual contractual position , but as in every business we do n't stick rigidly to the lettering of the policy , so erm in practice I think if you take the policy purely as it is erm it probably gives not as good effect of the policy as it actually is . |
| 16 | One of the most interesting and sometimes infuriating facets of running a reef aquarium is the apparently spontaneous appearance of various organisms which enter the tank either as larval forms or hidden in living rock or the bases of sessile invertebrates . |
| 17 | Some people stress the need to protect innocent children from the misuse of adult power ; others see the way forward as one of liberating and empowering children , even if this places them at risk . |
| 18 | While I am proud to acknowledge my sponsorship by the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers and my commitment of faith as a Methodist , I address the House today as merely one voice in a large and growing all-party coalition ranging from all the Churches to trade unions and consumer groups , all seeking a genuine consensus solution to the Sunday trading shambles . |
| 19 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |