Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 2 | Profits are increasingly being generated by treating pubs not just as places to sell large volumes of beer but as broader retail outlets promoting food and a range of drinks . |
| 3 | It seems a frequent theme in penal history that the two professions do not trust each other , at least as regards doing each other 's job . |
| 4 | ‘ The government has a free hand as regards interpreting this declaration , ’ Mr Yegor Gaidar , the first deputy Prime Minister and economics supremo , said yesterday . |
| 5 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 6 | For example , where possible imperatives will be interpreted as relevant to the present interaction , and thus as requests to implement some action at the present time . |
| 7 | The weak equivalence principle can now be restated as follows to exclude tidal effects : the results of local mechanical experiments in a state of free fall are independent of the motion . |
| 8 | Drastic changes of policy would have been very difficult , as attempts to cut Federal spending and to balance the budget revealed . |
| 9 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 10 | Audubon was not the first to try to portray animals in motion , but his dramatic and vast illustrations of the birds of America were important as attempts to show living creatures . |