Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay . |
| 4 | Remember people promote themselves , we 're growing fast as a division , make sure each and every one of you grow with us . |
| 5 | We 're remaining here as a marker until the diving ship arrives . ’ |
| 6 | The foundation , which has adopted the principles and guidelines of the German-based International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements , aims to provide assistance and education to private farmers , whose numbers are growing rapidly as a result of land reform and the breaking up of collective farms . |
| 7 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 8 | Fran watched the raindrops running down the glass panes , wishing foolishly that the sun had been shining again as a sort of omen . |
| 9 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 10 | The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him . |
| 11 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 12 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 13 | Even though people are perceiving what I 'm doing now as the sexy new me , I just feel like it 's more … me . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm talking now as a consumer . |
| 15 | One should not be surprised at the offsetting movements of currencies , since if some currencies are appreciating then as a matter of arithmetic other currencies must be depreciating . |
| 16 | And I am voting tonight as a vote of confidence in John Major . ’ |
| 17 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 18 | But there they were working together as a community , there in the great communal fields , where everybody had their own plot , but working together . |
| 19 | This difference is hardly surprising as treatment specialism is acting here as a proxy measure of morbidity . |
| 20 | Felixstowe is growing rapidly as a new container port with special equipment to handle the containers of manufactured goods and parts going mainly to and from other countries of the EEC . |
| 21 | Reflectance values are favourable , but the Zechstein rock salt is lacking here as a good seal horizon ( cf. |
| 22 | Peterborough is expanding rapidly as a New Town . |
| 23 | This rejection in the USA is coming partly as a result of the failure , as the business world sees it , of the education community to deliver increased , significant and measurable levels of attainment in the high school population . |
| 24 | Most people use what someone else is saying only as a springboard for what they are going to say . |
| 25 | American and Australian warships joined with British forces in a combined operation to intercept the Iraqis , and Defence Secretary , Tom King says it shows the multi-national force is working well as a unit . |
| 26 | We have restructured the whole company and we are working exactly as a private company . |
| 27 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 28 | Not only was the value of education and health to economic growth seriously questioned but fears were being expressed that high public expenditure in these areas was acting rather as an obstacle to economic growth . |
| 29 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 30 | These developments took place against a backdrop of a wider Europe which was changing rapidly as a result of superpower détente and the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe . |