Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 2 | Ullman 's general approach suggests that these could well be relatively low-level processes , not requiring cerebral computations ( as puzzling out the correct values of the variables in the formula for Snell 's law presumably does ) . |
| 3 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 4 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 5 | The German Ideology is often seen with the Theses on Feuerbach , which was written just before it , as forming together the first formulation of Marxism . |
| 6 | These later , more extensive , excavations brought various new finds to the surface as well as picking out the original flint walls . |
| 7 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 8 | As well as cleaning up the whole environment , the main task , as far as IXI is concerned , is to make Motif portable across platforms . |
| 9 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 10 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 11 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 12 | The techniques of field work in local history and geography , the techniques of using books , reference guides and libraries , the ability to " read " pictures and to assess critically film and television material , as well as to use creatively the various facilities and pieces of equipment that now exist , are valuable facets of the educated individual , and each type of activity offers a possible key to individual confidence and interest in learning . |
| 13 | Articles 34–38 specify no exceptions to the pacta tertiis rule ; such exceptions must either be fitted into the Articles or they must be accepted as prescribing only the general framework of the law . |
| 14 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 15 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 16 | If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes . |
| 17 | They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions . |
| 18 | He was so subtle as to deceive even the quickest witted people . |
| 19 | In the abbot 's parlour Tutilo had a larger audience than Cadfael had bargained for , but welcomed it , or so it seemed , perhaps as leavening further the bleak reception he could expect from Herluin . |
| 20 | How long will it be before the Student Loans Company will be able to administer mandatory grants as well as cut out the middle man ? |
| 21 | Many clients saw headhunters as taking on the dirty work , and many candidates obviously shared this view . |
| 22 | As well as tidying up the whole system , it re-affirms that the doctrine of saints has a place , but not the central place , in Catholic piety . |
| 23 | Receptionists are expected to be charming , tactful , diplomatic and capable of dealing with members of the public as well as carrying out the innumerable tasks that ensure the smooth and efficient running of the office . |
| 24 | The four volumes of this work are to be accompanied soon by a further five , the whole series presented as making up the definitive study of of quantum theory in an historical context . |
| 25 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 26 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 27 | As outlined previously the forward rate is connected to Eurocurrency interest rates . |
| 28 | As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers . |
| 29 | As mentioned above the two extremes of human tasks are the procedure and the diagnosis . |
| 30 | As mentioned elsewhere the specific design of transition methods gets too little attention . |