Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Do I already know enough about this subject , as taught at this college ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many thousands of pagans were baptised and Charles himself is recorded as assisting in mass baptism in the rivers Elbe and Ocker in 780 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The distinction made between make and cause as intended vs unintended causation , for instance , is based on the claim that one can say : ( 125 ) John accidentally/inadvertently caused Mary to drop her books . |
| 13 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 14 | Various factors , including actual experience and transmitted beliefs , play their parts in solidifying the conception of society as biased against black achievement in all spheres except music and sport and so , looking to those characters who have achieved the desirable commodities of prestige and affluence , black kids zealously follow their example . |
| 15 | If a centre has a Validation Procedures Agreement with the Council the progress of its submissions after their approval by the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee is as prescribed by that agreement . |
| 16 | April : Robert Polhill ( US ) , Frank Reed ( US ) , Fernand Houtekens ( Belgian ) , Jacqueline Valente ( French ) , Sophie-Liberté Valente ( French ) [ see p. 37391 ; the last three were released by representatives of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah , not by the Fatah Revolutionary Council as given on that page ] ; August : Emanuel Christen ( Swiss ) , Elio Erriquez ( Swiss ) , Brian Keenan ( Irish-British ) [ see p. 37768 ] ; October : 40 Shia Moslem " hostages " from Khiyam prison , southern Lebanon [ see p. 37793 ] . |
| 17 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |
| 18 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 19 | Crime — Fraud — Fraudulent trading — Investigation by Serious Fraud Office — Applicant charged with carrying on business of company with intent to defraud creditors — Whether power of Director to compel answers to questions ceasing once applicant charged — Criminal Justice Act 1987 ( c. 38 ) , s. 2 ( as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 ( c. 33 ) , ss. 143 , 170(1) , Sch . |
| 20 | The current law is to be found in Part V of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended by subsequent employment legislation . |
| 21 | This does not entail however , as Hirtle 1975 seems to suggest , that the infinitive must represent an event as referred to some point in time prior to its realization : if such were the case , it would be impossible to explain why to is needed in some contexts but not in others . |
| 22 | Traditionally sedimentologists have regarded grain size populations as approximating to this form of distribution and have based their methods of data plotting and statistical analysis on this assumed relationship . |
| 23 | Families are still per-ceived as consisting of one breadwinner who only exceptionally is a woman , and one dependent spouse whose primary responsibilities lie in the home . |
| 24 | Friedman sees the real demand for money ( M D /P ) as depending on total wealth ( W ) , the expected rates of return on the various forms of wealth ( r ) , the ratio of human wealth to non-human wealth ( w ) and society 's tastes and preferences ( T ) . |
| 25 | They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 26 | They have , in other words , been gestures in the direction of popular consultation rather than anything more substantial , with governments often declining to accept their outcome as binding in any case . |
| 27 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 28 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 29 | I HAVE never been as sickened by any criminal as much as I have by Nicholas Vernage , who murdered Sergeant Alan King . |
| 30 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |