Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short term , the Commission will concentrate its efforts largely on biomass , biofuels , energy-from-waste , wind power and small hydro power , with funds available for such purposes as drawing up national inventories on the use of renewables , creating uniformity of standards and implementing a statistical recording system . |
| 2 | International companies would be allowed to work in existing oil fields as well as opening up new ones , and gas finds could now be included along with oil in production-sharing agreements . |
| 3 | This , in turn , strengthened the image which Franco wished to convey of the rising , the war and his nascent regime , as representing not individual interests , but the national interest . |
| 4 | Simplified , you can view the Greens as vintage-style tones , the Yellows as representing more modern settings with higher gain , while Reds are bright , overdriven lead sounds . |
| 5 | It is also a good idea when keeping cichlids together , or with larger fish , to decorate the aquarium in such a way so as to set out individual territories so each fish can establish its own personal niche |
| 6 | The emergence of educational policies which focus on the school and college experiences of black and female students necessitates the use of ‘ race ’ and sex as significant categories , labelling students in such a way as to highlight both specific aspects of their identity and group membership and particular educational problems . |
| 7 | Various other costs such as administration , legal accountancy fees , as well as paying off any debts of the individual band members , could all amount to a further £20,000 . |
| 8 | It consists of a set of vertices , which may be thought of as marking off temporal units along the x axis , and a set of edges linking these vertices . |
| 9 | It is a scurrilous romp through the poet HC Artmann 's mildly subversive modern children 's songs , which seek out the clay feet of contemporary heroes like Batman and Superman , as well as invoking more traditional horrors . |
| 10 | Spatial modelling can be considered as providing initially two levels of crude solid model ; the first being an orthogonal brick in the reference space and the second an orthogonal brick interpreted in the local coordinate system . |
| 11 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 12 | They are no longer isolated and no longer see computers as providing mainly internal services such as payroll and stock control . |
| 13 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 14 | He told the Street 's fan magazine that the soap was envisaged as lasting only 13 episodes — of which Warren wrote 12 — and with quite a different name . |
| 15 | The Council itself came under criticism in the late 1960s as containing too few members from the colleges and polytechnics , especially members other than principals and directors . |
| 16 | Thirdly , it depicted a mental hospital as containing mentally handicapped adults who were sexually perverse or completely unable to look after themselves ; suggesting that this was typical of most mentally handicapped people . |
| 17 | As well as requiring highly developed skills of tact , and negotiation , a good working knowledge of industry and education is required . |
| 18 | Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality . |
| 19 | More work on government projects helped close the gap left by cash-strapped home-owners — not as profitable as kitting out private homes , but not to be sneezed at either . |
| 20 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 21 | In fact these groupings are shown by the survey as having fairly characteristic woodlands . |
| 22 | and the 11.00 on 17th May reported as having only six passengers . |
| 23 | Users may regard the computer department as having too great powers , and controlling ( by technology ) other departments which were previously controlled by people within the user department . |
| 24 | The AEF 's concept is being taken forward by representatives of two groups which might be seen as having totally opposing interests : the IATA-sponsored Air Transport Action Group and the AEF — a co-operative effort which is in itself an encouraging indication of what can be achieved . |
| 25 | Quakers , evangelicals and Rational Dissenters could reach a similar commitment by their own intellectual and theological routes and understand it as having somewhat different implications for desirable social and political arrangements . |
| 26 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 27 | ‘ Whether under the Labour or the Conservative Government , links with the Commonwealth were regarded as precluding too close links with the countries of Europe ’ ( Kitzinger , 1961 , ) . |
| 28 | A highlight was a party in the children 's hospital where we gave presents to all of the children , mums and staff as well as handing over medical supplies and a lap-top computer . |
| 29 | After all , how else can alignments of physical objects be calculated so as to lie along propitious meridians , save by reference to more fixed and less mutable properties of the earth ? |
| 30 | Moreover , the ambiguous meaning of ‘ caring ’ , especially the unarticulated elision of ‘ caring for ’ with ‘ caring about ’ , adds important emotional overtones to these tasks : ‘ the dominant cultural perception of caring sees it as involving essentially female qualities ’ ( Baldwin and Twigg , 1991 , p. 123 ) . |