Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken part in the search that morning for a while , talked to some of the children from the school , as well as helping to organize the house-to-house . |
| 2 | In India he developed his work among students , and founded the first Christian hostel for students at the University of Poona , as well as helping to build the ashram at Poona . |
| 3 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |
| 4 | Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) attribute most of these difficulties to the problem of courses in BSL which are currently provided in the UK , as tending to strengthen the Englishness of sign use among hearing people . |
| 5 | As well as attempting to limit the work of married women , policies to protect motherhood and enhance the welfare of children extended the direct surveillance of working class women in their homes . |
| 6 | This proposal , rejected by Iran as failing to address the issue of troop withdrawals to internationally recognised boundaries , involved ( i ) direct talks between Iran and Iraq in each other 's capitals under UN auspices ; ( ii ) the unconditional release of all sick and wounded prisoners of war ( PoWs ) ; and ( iii ) the opening of the Iran-Iraq borders to allow the resumption of civilian travel , especially to each other 's Islamic shrines . |
| 7 | Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village . |
| 8 | In 1106 , after the death of his brother Geoffrey , Fulk of Anjou was recorded by Orderic as having received the county of Anjou from King Philip I ; his homage therefore implied feudal subordination . |
| 9 | Here also the support of the infinitive is identified with that of the finite verb and so is depicted as having realized the action of struggling with the intention of performing the infinitive event . |
| 10 | Yet in a time of " unprecedented inflation , unprecedented wage demands and an unprecedented number of strikes " ' , most groups can be considered as having limited the fall in real earnings rather than as having maintained , let alone increased them . |
| 11 | The local authorities cited so far can be described as having assimilated the care programme approach , they take it into account and perceive opportunities to be gained , but they do not appear to have changed themselves in any significant way to accommodate it . |
| 12 | A useful starting point is to note that two of the three factors just mentioned as having influenced the law 's development have little application in modern conditions . |
| 13 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 14 | She was able to manage it because Anna fancied herself as having renounced the world and because of their rather special position in England as accepted outsiders not subject to the letter of the rules . |
| 15 | In fact , the Government has chosen to provide in the TURER Bill that the employee may object to the transfer , but such objection will operate so as to terminate the employment and the transferor will not be regarded as having dismissed the employee . |
| 16 | He also could be seen as having secured the continuation of his private office at No. 4 Parliament Street , when the block of buildings between King Street and Parliament Street was omitted from the Act . |
| 17 | Obtain your LM 's as poppy seed granules from pharmacy which you completely trust as having followed the procedure laid down in the Organon . |
| 18 | Thus , if the trustees of an interest in possession trust were actually to pay monies it will generally be the trustees who will be treated for the purpose of income tax as having made the payment and not the beneficiary ; if bare trustees , nominees or agents were to pay monies the beneficial owners or principals will generally be treated as having made the payments . |
| 19 | The author is perceived as having written the text with a fairly uncritical readership in mind , but the reader enjoys this sort of escapism anyway . |
| 20 | This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing . |
| 21 | Informants in all the schools perceived the project as having provoked more general awareness of study skills as an issue , and as having stimulated the need for some kind of response . |
| 22 | Yesterday you reported the Scottish executive as having clarified the attitude of the party in Scotland to water privatisation , in the wake of John Smith 's recent speech about ownership not mattering , and Tom Clarke 's discomfiture at being questioned over it . |
| 23 | With the establishment of the single passport principle , the two directives were regarded as having opened the way for a further liberalization of investment and insurance law . |
| 24 | An overwhelming vote of no confidence in it it was passed at the annual Police Federation conference in 1989 , with one member being reported in the press as having described the Authority as ‘ hell-bent on depriving police officers of their civil rights ’ . |
| 25 | In 1252 the ‘ jurats ’ of Romney Marsh are recorded as having had the power to repair the sea-wall and to control the ditches ‘ from time out of mind ’ . |
| 26 | A few proponents of the change effort saw themselves as having to provide the executive leadership for the change and having to develop a strategy for doing so . |
| 27 | One of the unquestionable advantages of the growing use of computers by humanists is that it has done something to bridge the divide between two cultures — scientific and humanist — which many writers have lamented as threatening to fragment the community of scholars and the republic of learning . |
| 28 | ‘ It is somehow seen as trying to soften the cross-examination of an alleged victim , and is somehow seen as more acceptable . ’ |
| 29 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 30 | Yet for some time the imposition of this compromise was resisted and resented as seeming to undermine the spirit of the ritual methods . |