Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reverse of this policy was a Unionist proposal that all men in the armed forces should qualify for the franchise as of right . |
| 2 | His mother clearly did not approve of the subject as being suitable for a teenager of Jamie 's age ! |
| 3 | If the number of pleats across the knitting includes a half-repeat , with the pattern positioned symmetrically as above four and a half repeats would fall on the knitting as in Fig 7 . |
| 4 | I suspect that the colleagues whom I have characterised as Constitutionalists or patriots may object to the classification as too restrictive of their views . |
| 5 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 6 | Nonetheless the parties may stand or fall by the evidence as disclosed in their witness statements , although a witness will always be free to give evidence in relation to new matters which have arisen since the statement was served on the other party . |
| 7 | Many readers , I suspect , will fall by the wayside as we descend into the realms of indigestible rhetorical terminology . |
| 8 | We may think of the evaluation as having four foci : |
| 9 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 10 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 11 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 12 | Jenna could still not think of the place as partly hers . |
| 13 | However , we know that quantum mechanically we can also think of the beam as made up of photons . |
| 14 | We can think of the adult as analogous to the ephemeral winged seed of a plant like a sycamore , and the larva as analogous to the main plant , the difference being that sycamores make many seeds and shed them over many successive years , while a mayfly larva gives rise to only one adult right at the end of its own life . |
| 15 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 16 | ‘ One does n't think of the Empress as being interested in men , ’ observed Adele in a gossipy whisper . |
| 17 | UNIP secretary-general Alexander Grey Zulu added his voice to the official rejection of multiparty politics , when he said in Kitwe on May 21 that those advocating the reintroduction of multiparty politics " should not beat about the bush as to their real motive , which was to acquire power " . |
| 18 | One of the most fundamental questions which has been posed is whether we can properly speak about the drama as writing . |
| 19 | We were disappointed but we could still watch through the windows as Mum gave her final instructions to Mrs Taylor and Mrs Buckley . |
| 20 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 21 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 22 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 23 | ‘ Red ’ , in the most basic sense , refers to a quality whose true locus is only in the perceptual fields of beings such as ourselves , but which in our most basic conceptualisations of the world we think of as being present more stably in a real world the character of which can clash with the world as immediately presented . |
| 24 | And what do they do with the money as well I 'd like to know . |
| 25 | The exit of Jeffrey Dujon , who filled such a pivotal position as a high-class number seven batsman and wicket-keeper for 10 years , has thrown the balance of the team out of joint , as was obvious in the World Cup and in the Test against South Africa a problem likely to send the selectors searching for a ‘ keeper ’ who can contribute with the bat as well . |
| 26 | Darwin 's originality lay in the fact that , as a wealthy amateur , he could study in the field as well as in the dissecting room and could thus synthesize the information from biogeography and morphology . |
| 27 | COLCHESTER player-manager Roy McDonough will watch from the sidelines as his team take on Norwegian tourists Nessegutten at Layer Road this evening in a friendly fixture ( kick-off 7.45 pm ) . |
| 28 | If the drugs do not appear in the stool as planned , or if symptoms of intoxication develop , the smuggler may present to a casualty department , fearing a package has burst , fabricating a story to try to avoid criminal proceedings . |
| 29 | Michael Howard , Secretary of State for Unemployment , in announcing employment action in Parliament , stated , this Government , have placed policies designed to lead to job creation and they will succeed in the future as they they have succeeded in the past . |
| 30 | Although the primary importance of state benefits in financing old age may decline in the future as both the opportunities and the incentives increase for today 's working population to accumulate private assets for retirement , there can be little doubt that over the last eighty years state pensions have been instrumental in sustaining a considerable degree of economic independence among the retired population . |