Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , the study draws attention to one of the causes of fairly rapid growth in these sectors , namely the transfer of jobs from the production industries as contracting out to the service industries continues . |
| 2 | The term 's work was not to be seen as leading up to the audio tape . |
| 3 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 4 | Even the Metallica frontman 's copious saliva emissions seem precision-directed and as rehearsed down to the n th degree as much of this marathon three-hour performance as obviously is . |
| 5 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
| 6 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 7 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
| 8 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |