Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logan was keen to court that generation both as readers and as potential writers . |
| 2 | The problem is how to conduct economic policy so as to reconcile full employment and price stability . |
| 3 | We 've got to continue that restraint even as things start to get better , and that means restraints from the top to the bottom , from board room to shop floor . |
| 4 | We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities . |
| 5 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 6 | But we should note , too , that language development itself , the acquisition of knowledge of symbolic meanings , is activated by the need to extend schematic knowledge so as to cope more effectively with the social environment . |
| 7 | It is possible to nuance this view slightly as regards the Edinburgh union leadership . |
| 8 | The original purpose of the allies in Japan , following the Japanese surrender in August 1945 , had been to reform Japanese society so as to eliminate the aggressive , militaristic character of Japanese government , which had largely explained the growth of the Japanese empire between 1894 and 1943 . |
| 9 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 10 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 11 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 12 | The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’ |
| 13 | Children too are well catered for , giving you the chance to have some time off as well . |
| 14 | We recognize that changes in attitude can be encouraged by good staff training , particularly in management and communication skills , and we would wish to encourage management to offer such training on as wide a basis as possible . |
| 15 | In 1905 its general manager and Wilson 's arch opponent , Cuthbert Laws , could claim thirty-six operational registry offices at the principal ports of the kingdom , a capacity to move free labour anywhere as required , equipment and stores to maintain 5,000 men , nine-tenths of UK seagoing tonnage in membership and an invested capital of almost £200 mn . |
| 16 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 17 | IMRAN KHAN became the fifth player in Test history to take 350 wickets — joining Richard Hadlee , Ian Botham , Dennis Lillee and Kapil Dev — when he held on to a fine one-handed return catch to dismiss Ravi Shastri yesterday as India lost their last seven wickets for 143 on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Sialkot . |
| 18 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector . |
| 20 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |