Example sentences of "as [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 2 | Rothman ( 1991 ) sees case management as incorporating two broad functions , which are : providing individualized advice , counselling , and therapy to clients in the community , and linking clients to needed services and supports in community agencies and informal helping networks . |
| 3 | I think the classical perspective can be seen as incorporating three fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings that are crucial to it position on crime and conformity : freedom , rationality and manipulability . |
| 4 | and as employing five distinct methods : |
| 5 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 6 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 7 | The union estimates that local education authorities had to find an additional £7m , as well as awarding 8,400 fewer classroom teacher incentive allowances , to meet the cost of incentives for senior teachers . |
| 8 | The shell-shape patterns reviewed here ( and more fully by Crothers , 1983b ) coupled with the chromosome variation , can be " explained " by envisaging the N. lapillus populations of the British Isles as comprising two main groups ( Fig. 33 ) . |
| 9 | However , Chris Smith , owner of Westfield Sports Cars , claims that his company has had to spend more than £250,000 on readying the ZEi for the showroom , as well as allocating two full-time staff to the project . |
| 10 | I do n't think I 've ever done anything as difficult as containing one particular class of 13-year-olds at that city school . |
| 11 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 12 | By the time IISS brought out their 1984/85 issue of Military Balance , updating the position at the war 's outbreak , Iraq was reported as having five Super Etendards . |
| 13 | The background to the tax-mix debate is seen as having two major schools of thought : |
| 14 | In the United States of America , the anti-profits statutes have been seen as having two major purposes . |
| 15 | Hobbes thought of men as having one over-riding aim , that of sheer survival . |
| 16 | Recall from section 1.5.3 that the regulationist school sees the international economy as having one national economy in a hegemonic position ; a period of structural change can thus be one in which that hegemony is consolidated or challenged and undermined . |
| 17 | This applies equally to the way we use which could be seen as having three distinct roles , depending on the learner level it is used at . |
| 18 | Not even very kind , very polite young men in her year at art school had so much as thawed one tiny corner of her iced-up emotions . |
| 19 | This chapter has been organized so as to describe three main tours of the island , as well as a trip to Curral das Freiras . |
| 20 | A total of 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries from 158 countries witnessed the Emperor 's formal accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne , as did 2,500 Japanese guests . |
| 21 | Around 50 died ( 19 during ceasefires ) , as did 20 Slovene militiamen . |
| 22 | A deputation from the right-wing 92 Group visited her that evening , as did three ministerial members of the No Turning Back Group . |
| 23 | In examining the behaviour of the state , we consider individuals as playing three main roles : as voters , as legislators and as administrators . |
| 24 | Again for sweaters , little crescent moons and stars scattered over the fabric makes a very pretty design , as does one big intarsia crescent moon which again can be classically simple or fun with a face on it . |
| 25 | Chairman Sam Smith has since resigned as have three non-executive directors . |
| 26 | As well as offering 21 standard items , the company makes specialist pastas for customers and has more than 500 specialist lines . |
| 27 | Sometimes a problem is so worded as to involve two successive questions , but the second question logically arises only if the first is answered in a certain way . |