Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I already know enough about this subject , as taught at this college ? |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 5 | In 1989 the rate of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants was 422 , considerably in excess , as reported in this volume , of the rates for South Africa ( 373 ) and Poland ( 177 ) . |
| 6 | Between 1979 and 1983 this region experienced the highest level of energy consumption growth of all among the Third World regions as considered in this study ( Latin America , Africa , South East Asia , Middle East ) and between 1983 and 2000 the level of increase will be exceeded only by South East Asia . |
| 7 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 8 | However , as a consideration of the full list of Orpheus and saltire mosaics in section 3 , and then again in section 4 , would have been repetitive , mosaics which are closely related ( but not sufficiently close to be considered as related at this level of affinity ) will be examined in the preamble to a discussion of two putative , " integral groups " . |
| 9 | Other family names which come to mind as living in this terrace include Cobb , Welsh , Conduit , Weston , Andrews , Bannell and Godwin . |
| 10 | The British Government argued that the contempt law , as applied in this case , was necessary to uphold " the authority of the judiciary " and the legal rights of the drug manufacturers . |
| 11 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 12 | The heterogeneous increase of urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in homogenates of endoscopical biopsy specimens from carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract , which was not associated with several other prognostic determinants , as presented in this study , might perhaps be of value in determining prognosis in ( early ) oesophageal and gastric cancer . |
| 13 | Both types were fitted with top-deck covers before the First World War , as seen on this page , but more extensive rebuilding followed . |
| 14 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |
| 15 | Here they operate in very different surroundings to Blackpool 's , as seen on this page : — |
| 16 | Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus . |
| 17 | ‘ As seen from this space station , I presume ? ’ |
| 18 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 19 | What is the attitude of Snowden towards MacDonald as revealed by this extract ? |
| 20 | LEFT Never forget that small puppies can grow into large dogs , as shown by this Pyrenean Mountain dog . |
| 21 | This is particularly true for cases of chemical gastritis , as shown by this study and by others , and may explain , at least partly , the reduced specificity of serology in NSAID patients , who have a higher prevalence of chemical gastritis . |
| 22 | Or is each to remain stubbornly not a piece of a jigsaw puzzle , but in its own watertight compartment , as shown in this diagram ? |
| 23 | Extended family placements , as shown in this example , are often good child care practice . |
| 24 | As shown in this study , two biopsies from the left side of the colon are sufficient to assess the mucosal disease activity in Crohn 's disease patients whatever the location of the disease . |
| 25 | In the absence of gastroduodenal surgery , the last is mostly found in chronic NSAID users , as shown in this study and others . |
| 26 | As shown in this cross section , these mesophyll cells are surrounded by air , which contains the necessary carbon dioxide . |
| 27 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 28 | Their responses showed little indication of an overwhelming conservatism , as measured by this scale . |
| 29 | 676 , in particular at pp. 687 , 689 , as approved by this court in Saunders v. Edwards [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1116 , 1127 and 1134 , and in particular per Nicholls L.J. , at p. 1132. ( 3 ) However , the ex turpi causa defence must be approached pragmatically and with caution , depending on the circumstances : see e.g. per Bingham L.J . |
| 30 | Clearly the tasks as performed in this study were not , as intended , completely unrelated to risk ratings . |