Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , their legacy lives on as the British Pteridological Society ( BPS ) , which this year celebrates its centenary . |
| 2 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 3 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 4 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 5 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 6 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 7 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 8 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 9 | The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March . |
| 10 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |