Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 2 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 3 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 4 | I think she 'd give the dog away as well . |
| 5 | ‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised . |
| 6 | PRINCESS Diana let her fingers do the talking yesterday as she launched Britain 's first sign language dictionary . |
| 7 | Recently , moreover , as we shall see , the courts have tended to erode and rationalise the rule so as to reduce the ambit of strict liability and to bring the rule more into line with the predominant modern philosophy of no liability without fault . |
| 8 | do you remember the time though as being , you , you certainly imply that it was a , a time when there was a quite a bit of unrest perhaps at the complexity of the scheme , as much as anything else . |
| 9 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing now as another . |
| 10 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 11 | No , I shall keep the house exactly as it was ; he 'd want me to do that . |
| 12 | One palm reader may deduce her findings from a comparison between lines and hand form , while another may simply use the palm rather as she uses , at other times , a crystal ball . |
| 13 | Do not lean backwards or jerk the barbell upwards as this will put great strain on the lower back area and detract from the development of the biceps . |
| 14 | Must we take a fund so as to avoid having our patients condemned to the lower tier of a two tier service ? |
| 15 | The difficulties arise in attempting to devise a formula that will distribute the grant so as to equalise its effects on the needs and resources of all local authorities . |
| 16 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 17 | I understand that it would leave the situation exactly as it is now , with green form advice available from a legal practitioner or free from UKIAS — but with representation confined only to UKIAS or any successor body . |
| 18 | Of course , one would program the print-out so as to collate tables to save paper , but the tables of results would still have to be read and digested . |
| 19 | One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker . |
| 20 | How shall we word a letter so as not to offend the parents ? |
| 21 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 22 | But then I thought , Why would they replace the barrier exactly as I had left it ? |
| 23 | A covenant may very well have reference to the land , but , unless it is reasonably incidental to the relation of landlord and tenant , it can not be said to touch and concern the land so as to be capable of running therewith or with the reversion . |