Example sentences of "as [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a coastline is a curve whose length ( between any two points ) increases when measured more accurately so as to include its ever-finer convolutions round bays , headlands , cliffs , boulders rocks , pebbles , etc , and on any reasonably simple model the length is infinite . |
| 2 | The scum kid seemed about to fit the mask to his own face so as to hide his savage features … or to become , for a few moments , the reflexion of Lexandro who lived such an unimaginable , foreign life . |
| 3 | To display their collection of everything from Islamic ceramics to the Russian Avant-garde they have made substantial long-term loans as well as opening their own museums . |
| 4 | The ideal model helps to differentiate the workforce ( by age , sex and colour ) according to how far different groups approximate to the model and can be seen as representing its exemplary qualities of commitment and reliability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This seems clear evidence that they recognise the mirror image as representing their own bodies . |
| 7 | The school was , in any event , up and running so as to provide its educational facilities for 625 boys . |
| 8 | Our pupils will , therefore , learn basic grammar as well as developing their communicative skills . |
| 9 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |
| 10 | Both groups follow Foucault to the extent that they neither propose , nor utilize , a general theory of history as such ; but unlike Foucault they simply tend to shelve the whole problem so as to avoid its theoretical difficulties . |
| 11 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 12 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 13 | Canon Sales , which is the main dealer for Macintosh computers , also has a systems integration business with Digital Equipment Corp , NeXT Computer Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co equipment , as well as selling its own printers via a chain of retail shops called Canon Zero-One Shops . |
| 14 | Although all four strategies may be separated so as to discuss their major characteristics , in practice countries commonly adopt a combination of two or more types ; ( Murley , 1991 ; UN ECE , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor . |
| 16 | analysed so as to determine its exact elements and how these are spread across the negotiating parties |
| 17 | As regards his personal injuries there is no warning that the firework can not be held in the hand . |
| 18 | This states that the defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him , as regards his physical characteristics . |
| 19 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 20 | BRC frequently relay wrong information ( primarily because they receive wrong information ) , and wider societal divisions ensure that the main mode of transport in Easton , as elsewhere , is reinforced Land Rovers in order to afford occupants some protection from attack , although policemen and women see them as having their own vulnerabilities . |
| 21 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |
| 22 | His chronic bronchitis was also noted as this might make him unfit for anaesthetic or at risk of a post-operative chest infection as well as exacerbating his present problems . |
| 23 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 24 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 25 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 26 | The Tiger Fish originates from the Amazon , as do its distant cousins the Piranhas , and other members of the Characin family ( yes , that includes Neon Tetras ) . |
| 27 | This has grave consequences for their children who ‘ do not learn as much from their mothers as do their middle-class counterparts ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 28 | Of course the daft names of so many of his pieces feed the myth as do his occasional forays into what can seem like a kind of proto-minimalism . |
| 29 | Above all he becomes a technician of controlled trance , to which he then surrenders totally — perhaps rather unknowingly as do our greatest actors and musicians . |
| 30 | Thus we have suspicion , confusion and misunderstanding , for the mental meaning underlying words varies , as do our habituated beliefs . |