Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 2 | Asked about Bosnia , Mr Major said he did not regard the US airdrops as presenting any danger of retaliation against British troops on the ground in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | The study of equilibrium growth paths , on the other hand , takes as given that investment and full employment savings are equal , and proceeds typically by analysing development over time in terms of the behaviour of savings . |
| 4 | Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it |
| 5 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 6 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 7 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 8 | For example , this is the pattern that emerges from studies of Urdu speakers in Britain described by Khan ( 1991 ) , who writes : Urdu thus emerges as having greater currency for first-generation than second-generation speakers . |
| 9 | ANOTHER LOSER : John Major doubles as failed ski-jumper Eddie the Eagle |
| 10 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |