Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ .
2 The actual weight at the end of each month can then be filled in as the weight control regime progresses .
3 The fee of 9d showed that Halling possessed a church and was designated so as the fee for a chapel was 6d .
4 This suggest that the gas is undergoing a cooling flow , as is expected anyway as the gas density inferred from the X-ray luminosity requires that the cooling time be less than the age of the Universe within that region .
5 The crowd dispersed quickly as the vision floated away .
6 The hut is in a most peculiar situation , perched perfectly as the map would imply , to receive the maximum effect of the avalanche loading slopes behind it .
7 My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet .
8 To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques .
9 Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois .
10 Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions .
11 Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs .
12 The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway .
13 Gradually parts of the Chelt 's course were culverted and later built over as the town grew .
14 Tara is whisked away as the operation begins .
15 In 1689 , Presbyterianism was accepted finally as the Faith of the Scottish Kirk and interference by the monarch came to an end .
16 THE first strike for 18 years among Germany 's 2.3m public sector employees was threatened yesterday as the government rejected a 5.4 p.c. pay rise recommended by arbitrators , writes Robin Gedye .
17 THE Labour leadership was overwhelmingly defeated yesterday as the conference demanded big pension increases .
18 This is particularly emphasised in progressive municipal boroughs , whose opposition is written off as the insanity of the ‘ loony left ’ , to the extent that the Labour Party itself seems nervous of suggesting anything socialist or progressive for fear of losing the middle ground .
19 Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session .
20 The well-known statement in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is seen traditionally as the beginning of modern Sussex , the land of the South Saxons , or ‘ Australes Saxones . ’
21 Material should also be selected carefully as the quality of the resource is more important than the quantity .
22 Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union .
23 The wings became a blur and Twoflower was jerked back as the dragon veered and sped off down a side corridor like a gnat-crazed swallow .
24 This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system .
25 When we turn to trade in services it is no surprise to find that the UK 's net income from financial services has grown dramatically as the City 's banking and financial business has grown .
26 Relief operations in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37697 ; 37988 ] were considered to be only marginally the concern of the UNHCR , being seen primarily as the evacuation of third-party nationals to their home countries , rather than the repatriation of refugees .
27 This was made easier as the lake was completely encircled by a road , with a wide pathway down one side of the lake , and we often collected several hundred in one circuit .
28 Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad .
29 The NARAL advertisement is an example of nonsexist language being used apparently as the norm , but in reality to make a point , to make people think of women in a context where ordinarily they might not ( as the inheritors of constitutional rights ) .
30 A small sample of polymer suspended in this column provides a direct measure of the polymer density which can be measured easily as the temperature is varied .
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