Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an attitude is , of course , typical of the ‘ oral personality ’ , as classically defined in the annals of psychoanalysis , and I think it is no coincidence that anorexics , who are almost invariably subject to heavily competitive pressures , should choose eating as the focal point for expressing the resulting conflicts . |
| 2 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 3 | Full details will become known as the successive subject working groups report , and programmes of study and attainment targets are drawn up . |
| 4 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
| 5 | Ideally I 'd like to return as the main ingredient used to make the suntan lotion Kim Basinger favours … work that one out for yourselves ! |
| 6 | An elderly lady could n't stop crying as the Big Man paced through her small Devonshire village . |
| 7 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 8 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 9 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 10 | So too are recent developments in what the Chicago School would have seen as the biotic level of instinctive behaviour affecting individuals and societies . |
| 11 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 12 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 13 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 14 | Hence , subject to your approval , we would intend to act as the principal point of contact for interested parties and their various professional advisers , keeping you fully appraised of developments as they arise . |
| 15 | They then show how these discriminatory procedures could come to function as the semantic anchoring of our lexicon . |
| 16 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |