Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 2 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 3 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 4 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 5 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 6 | I packed you up in your painted form as I have done for every move I have made since the Summer Exhibition , and we travelled down to Bodmin together , you and I — ’ |
| 7 | If you forget , as you turn to go for another dog the lead dog , being a friendly creature , will come with you . |
| 8 | But I do get quite a few people phone me as you know asking for information . |
| 9 | Write your diary entry describing how you feel as you prepare to leave for the island . |
| 10 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 11 | Little accurate information is available on population sizes in the middle ages but such evidence as we do have for the UK suggests that there was a six- or sevenfold increase between AD 1100 and 1780 , with alternating lengthy periods of rapid and slow growth . |
| 12 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 13 | Often particular normal modes are essentially identical to particular group modes , as we have seen for and , but in other cases substantial mixing of local modes occurs . |
| 14 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 15 | The same method of pultrusion as we have described for the GRP rod and tube is applied to carbon . |
| 16 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 17 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 18 | Ireland survey the wreckage of their worst ever Five Nations campaign as they prepare to leave for New Zealand . |
| 19 | There are two new ESP courses from OUP : Oxford English for Computing and Oxford English for Electronics and these should be welcomed as they try to cater for both the technical expectations of students and the non-technical background of most teachers . |
| 20 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 21 | But the couple , now both retired , have learned to lean on each other for support as they continue to grieve for their youngest child . |
| 22 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 23 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 24 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 25 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 26 | They congregate in favoured places such as Quendale Bay , Ronas Voe and north of Hascosay , as they have done for generations , and here they complete their moult into their smart summer dress , to replace the drab dark grey and white . |
| 27 | Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking . |
| 28 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 29 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend has been a staunch ally in trying to resolve difficulties as they have arisen for my constituents . |