Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because a particular action achieves a given result , the action is seen as made necessary in order to achieve that result , and a loose typology of the ‘ needs ’ of capital is constructed to demonstrate the functionality of any particular outcome . |
| 2 | China would require trade and economic assistance ; Japanese politicians and capitalists were willing to provide this , as made clear by Yoshida himself . |
| 3 | As made clear in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) ( above ) this means that a valid legal lease must be for a fixed and certain period of time . |
| 4 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 5 | In Mr Shaw 's view , his Bill , if it had been law , would have prevented the Maxwell fraud and the problems with BCCI , as well as saving billions of pounds lost to the Exchequer every year because of tax haven activity . |
| 6 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 7 | Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time . |
| 8 | The prompt reply showed just how little Security now had to do : CCOAC translated as Churchgoers Concerned About Communism a one-off conference had in May 1968 . |
| 9 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 10 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and leaves WABI snookered as far as staying current with Windows development goes , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 11 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and puts WABI behind the eight ball as far as staying current with Windows development , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 12 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and leaves WABI snookered as far as staying current with Windows development goes , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 13 | What makes you think I can cook as well as get stroppy about words ? ’ |
| 14 | Now if they pull it off everybody 'll heave a sigh of relief and their methods will be forgiven , and if they do n't then it 'll all be Number 10 's fault and that would probably suit their book just as much as coming good on Plainsong itself . ’ |
| 15 | The resistance to Bauthumley or Trapnel as figures worthy of study is part of an institutional assumption that literary study in higher education should force a separation between the elite and the popular , the sophisticated and the simplistic . |
| 16 | In fact , Moore also suggests that mosaics — as seems likely for pavements such as the Aldborough Star mosaic ( pI . |
| 17 | As well as creating one of Europe 's most compact and flexible car factories , the changes will also alter the Oxford landscape , the bridge over the ring road which ferries car bodies to the assembly plant will no longer be required and will disappear . |
| 18 | This is precisely what has happened at Malham ( and though I find it visually offensive I still climb there , as do hundreds of others ) . |
| 19 | Most houses in Bridge Road have sound insulation , as do some in Medway Road . |
| 20 | More than 100,000 people outside the Congress building celebrated , as did millions of people around the country ; one street demonstration completely blocked the city of Sao Paulo . |
| 21 | Bigger and better equipped practices and those with a diabetic miniclinic had patients with significantly better glycaemic control , as did those with access to dietetic advice . |
| 22 | It is true that Edward V 's one and only regnal year began on the day the previous sovereign expired , as did those of Henry VII and Henry VIII , Edward VI , Queens Jane , Mary I and Elizabeth I , James I , Charles I and James II . |
| 23 | As far as practice factors are concerned , patients registered with better equipped and larger practices had better control , as did those in practices with diabetic miniclinics . |
| 24 | Several of its most famous names decamped to London , as did half of Factory . |
| 25 | There are clear ‘ fits ’ between the two lists , giving support to the view that a synergetic relationship is possible , and some obvious benefits are almost bound to derive from bringing two organisations together , just as sitting next to Nellie traditionally gradually fused the experience of the expert with the youthful vigour of the apprentice . |
| 26 | As well as housing thousands of species of algae , fish and molluscs , the sea grass generates oxygen and has been dubbed the " lungs of the sea " . |
| 27 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 28 | The current restriction is therefore calculated as profits chargeable to corporation tax ( ie income and capital gains ) x 25% . |
| 29 | The nationality requirement , along with the domicile and residence requirements , was so restrictive as to make ineligible for consideration as ‘ qualified companies ’ many publicly quoted companies or banks on the International Stock Exchange in London . |