Example sentences of "as [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 2 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 3 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 4 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 5 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 6 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 7 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 8 | As well as explaining the financial challenges of starting up a new business , Sue makes sure her students have thought through the effect it will have on their lives . |
| 9 | Presumably the Regent had waited until almost darkness , so as to hide the Scots movements once across the river . |
| 10 | However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future . |
| 11 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms . |
| 13 | We have attended a meeting on this subject and are working towards national recognition of our revised Syllabus as incorporating the necessary elements but meanwhile if you can take any such courses without undue difficulty we would advise you to do so . |
| 14 | As well as announcing the new ValuePoints ( see front ) , IBM Corp 's Personal Computer Co cut prices on the multiprocessing version of its PS/2 Server 295 by 30% and added a PS/2 Server 195 fault-tolerant system that offers an ‘ affordable ’ growth path to the PS/2 Server 295 with starting price under $20,000 . |
| 15 | As well as emptying the prostatic ducts , orgasm also leads to temporary increase in the blood supply to the prostate , which can lead to a flushing out of the infecting organism . |
| 16 | We can begin with the crucial , if rather obvious , point that understanding what people mean by what they say is not the same as understanding the linguistic expressions they use in saying it . |
| 17 | Equally the Report has been read as revealing the essential features of English studies as a discipline . |
| 18 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
| 19 | To isolate the trend , we must use a moving average of such period as to eliminate the seasonal effects . |
| 20 | Thirdly , it has a textual function : it must be well constructed as an utterance or text , so as to serve the decoding needs of the hearer . |
| 21 | There was an enormous amount of planning to do as well as writing the various protocols and policies which would enable me to function as an ENP . |
| 22 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 23 | Unless such disclosure is regarded as defining the respective rights and duties of the parties ab initio61 it is unlikely to be effective as a means of avoiding liability for breach of duty . |
| 24 | Adair sees the leader 's role as meeting the respective needs of the task , the group and individuals , within a given situation . |
| 25 | For example , it has recently been agreed that Incorporated Engineers will be listed in the Implementing Regulations ; SCOTVEC HNCs and HNDs are recognised as meeting the educational requirements for registration as Incorporated Engineer . |
| 26 | The Report , as well as meeting the statutory obligations of a company like SCOTVEC , also describes the main events of the year , such as the official opening of Hanover House by the Secretary of State , and summarises the progress made by SCOTVEC in its various fields of activity . |
| 27 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 28 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 29 | In contrast , east Thurso ( with no cases ) may be seen as resembling the urban areas in our study in which the incidence of leukaemia was unaffected by the oil industry . |
| 30 | An electronic set of tricks simulates the real life timetable so that the operators receive and send all of the necessary signals as well as operating the appropriate signals . |