Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As foreseen in last year 's Annual Report , competitive quotations were sought , and a contract let , for plant operation and maintenance of the Library 's buildings for three years from 1991–92 . |
| 2 | But while there is evidence that young children can be bored or confused by doing work too advanced for them , as well as frightened by bigger children in the toilets or playground , there is no evidence that early teaching of the three Rs leads to top marks and academic success for the child later on . |
| 3 | Labov sees the methods of this research as deriving from two sources . |
| 4 | He would never expressly suggest that one or two might go down , but would rather point to an accumulation of profits as deriving from several shares and not just one . |
| 5 | There is also the supplementary point that very commonly the " web-groups that are thus linked together treat their solidarity as deriving from common substance , in contrast to the alliances , which link " we " and " they " , which rest on obligations periodically expressed in gift-giving and services . |
| 6 | The basis of the argument was that since , at the date of the Shops Act 1950 , the only proceedings which the local authority could then have instituted to enforce the law against Sunday trading were criminal proceedings , section 71(1) should be read as limited to such proceedings . |
| 7 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 8 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 9 | Basil 's home as recalled in some memories of childhood by his sister Janet Muriel Livingstone " who was born in 1902 |
| 10 | Something as innocuous as suggesting to another student that a life preparation student should be allowed to take the coins out of her purse unaided may , inadvertently , upset the nursery nurse student in the short term . |
| 11 | SOEs multiplied in Malaysia with the desired roles , as explained by one official as ‘ patron , trustee , joint venture partner , complementer and inducer of expanded bumiputra participation in the commercial and industrial sectors ’ ( Leeds , 1989 : p. 743 ) . |
| 12 | ( a ) Retirement and expulsion As explained in earlier chapters of this book , where no express provision is contained in a partnership agreement or satisfactory arrangements can not be agreed to meet the particular circumstances of the partner concerned , the Partnership Act only offers dissolution as the answer to what to do with a partner whose continued presence in the firm is unwanted by his co-partners . |
| 13 | On the F-Plan it is even less possible because if you are consuming 1,000 calories a day in the form of fibre-rich meals a percentage of those calories is not digested , as explained in previous chapters . |
| 14 | The reaction was an uproar : Sir Keith had managed to offend both the left and the right , as well as touching on two taboos in one theme : sex and class . |
| 15 | Do I already know enough about this subject , as taught at this college ? |
| 16 | German , as taught in British schools , is of the correct variety . |
| 17 | Second , are States which ratify the Convention closer to its coming into force bound by the terms of the Convention , or the terms as altered by subsequent actions of non-parties . |
| 18 | Here , ‘ modernist ’ Freudian theory would conceive of the psyche as differentiated into two spheres — of desire , on the one hand , and the conscious mind on the other . |
| 19 | And however my person , and parts be meane in the Worlds Eye , and so may cast an odium upon the things that I hold forth ; yet I shall runne the hazard in that kinde , and leave the Lord to gain his own Honour and Glory in it ; as seeing by sweet experience , it is one of his greatest designes in the World , to confound the high and mighty things thereof , by the most meane and contemptible . |
| 20 | But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries . |
| 21 | She is no longer merely a ‘ bimbo , ’ as designated by some experts on this sort of thing — Beaumont , Douglas and Rose . |
| 22 | Self-control , obedience , the recognition of authority , and , later , respect for elders are all the outcome of the first year 's training , as emphasized in preceding chapters . |
| 23 | It may be that the wearing of jewellery ( such as ear studs , as favoured by some groups ) could also pose a risk to safety in certain situations . |
| 24 | A visually outstanding picture book revealing the megalomania of Stalinist architecture both on paper and as realised with amazing diversity in popular palaces deriving most from Boullée , Piranesi and the Gothic cathedral . |
| 25 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 26 | There are well-kept paths , a trimmed lawn , vegetables , flowers , and fruit , but the flowers and vegetables are grown together in the same beds , the soil is never left bare , and many of the plants she encourages would be condemned as weeds by most gardeners . |
| 27 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 28 | Many thousands of pagans were baptised and Charles himself is recorded as assisting in mass baptism in the rivers Elbe and Ocker in 780 . |
| 29 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 30 | One of the major problems with this is that the private benefits accruing to households or families who take up either family planning or conservation measures are often not clear — either as perceived to exist by households themselves or even as calculated by economic models . |