Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) On what chart does the rhumb line appear as a straight line ? |
| 2 | In a workshop session which the BA might consider restaging as a full day seminar , Peter Mouncey of the AA , Leslie Henry of Book Marketing Ltd and Sue Morris of W H Smith tackled ‘ Targeting the book market — the role of research ’ from three different though complementary angles . |
| 3 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 4 | The willingness of all staff to co-operate and contribute serves as a useful counterpoint to the divisive and negative views which are commonly expressed elsewhere . |
| 5 | Thus , very high blood pressure can become established as a pathological state — ‘ essential hypertension ’ — which can help to precipitate strokes or heart attacks . |
| 6 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 7 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 8 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 9 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 10 | So , until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue , the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate , if less than ideal stopgap . |
| 11 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 12 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 13 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 14 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 15 | NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press . |
| 16 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 17 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 18 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 19 | How , how would you have felt as a poor peasant |
| 20 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 21 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 22 | Whilst the provisions of the agreement should when drafted accurately reflect what the partners desire to happen in certain specified events or , at any rate , what the partners may have agreed as a satisfactory basis for subsequent negotiation or a sufficient fall-back position if those negotiations should break down , they should be kept under regular review . |
| 23 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 24 | All the rulings have been accepted by the companies concerned , not always without some hard pounding en route , and the adverse publicity arising must have acted as a powerful deterrent to other companies contemplating the use of accounting treatments on a basis of doubtful motivation and justification . |
| 25 | Here he may well have acted as a diplomatic go-between in introducing them to the Roman traders , whose imports have been found at their main centre , the great oppidum at Bagendon near Cirencester . |
| 26 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 27 | Even if they were not consciously doing so , feelings of risk may have acted as an important retrieval cue in the context . |
| 28 | This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams . |
| 29 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 30 | But , and it 's a big but , what the enthusiastic driver would once have interpreted as an enjoyable adjustable cornering balance has been squeezed out of existence . |