Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 2 | There are well-kept paths , a trimmed lawn , vegetables , flowers , and fruit , but the flowers and vegetables are grown together in the same beds , the soil is never left bare , and many of the plants she encourages would be condemned as weeds by most gardeners . |
| 3 | She highlights Van Uden 's insistence on imitation ( and reward ) as the teaching approach to language , at the expense of natural elaboration of utterances — as occurs with hearing children ( this is one aspect of teaching style also taken up by Wood , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | An added bonus of dry-type filters is that the bacteria are not diminishing the oxygen level in the aquarium water as occurs with wet systems plumbed into the aquarium . |
| 5 | Internal reviews may be much more schematic when institutional context and course structure and assumptions are shared , as occurs on modular courses . |
| 6 | These findings suggest TAGH infusion leads to a similar process of EGF receptor phosphorylation and internalisation as occurs after partial hepatectomy . |
| 7 | Our results also raise the possibility that demyelinating lesions that cause a conduction block along axons , as occurs in multiple sclerosis , may fail to remyelinate in part because the silent axons fail to stimulate oligodendrocyte precursor cells to proliferate . |
| 8 | It is also possible that in this continuum a tumour increases the amount of large cells and develops higher grades of malignancy transforming low grade into high grade as occurs in nodal counterparts . |
| 9 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 10 | Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return . |
| 11 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 12 | Her new insight and changed consciousness came too late in her life , as happens with many women , to bear fruit for herself or for others . |
| 13 | The Continental C90–16F powerplant being equipped with a vacuum pump , the artificial horizon and DI erect immediately on starting and do not need to be spun up by the act of getting airborne , as happens with similarly-aged aeroplanes fitted with venturis . |
| 14 | In other words , as happens in other clubs . ’ |
| 15 | Or perhaps the subjects of Cameron 's study were simply malnourished , as happens in many institutions , and the RNA served as a dietary supplement . |
| 16 | If someone has promised that he will prevent the promisee suffering any loss , and he does cause that no such loss arises from that matter , he does what he promised ; but if he does not , because he does not do what he promised , he is condemned in a sum of money , as happens in all obligations for performance . |
| 17 | These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet . |
| 18 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 19 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 20 | Truly integrated arts are not simply about providing suitable facilities , but about involving Disabled people as equals at all levels of decision-making and practice , and recognising the experience of Disability throughout the arts structure . |
| 21 | It is important to commit appropriately trained and resourced professionals to the task and to structure the project in such a way that information specialists are enabled to contribute as equals with technical colleagues , as an integrated part of the team . |
| 22 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 23 | Now , we have to attempt to compete internationally , with a stimulating junior programme , as exists in other corners of the world . |
| 24 | These gains in producer and consumer surpluses can be considered as increases in real incomes to consumers and producers . |
| 25 | ‘ A pear , ’ wrote Edward Bunyard , ‘ should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption . ’ |
| 26 | The programmes of study for each key stage provide opportunities to use units as links between key stages . |
| 27 | However , if , as applies to many women , despite having worked for a good number of years you have made insufficient contributions to qualify for a full pension , you should contact your local Social Security office , quoting your pension number and national insurance number . |
| 28 | Some functions available to the problem program ( such as transput operations , or program intercommunications facilities ) will be implemented as extracodes on all models of the range . |
| 29 | Many from eastern parts and western parts will come and decline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens and erm as regards to these ones , Abraham , Isaac and Jacob erm , at the kingdom of the heavens , while these ones were born before Jesus were n't they ? |
| 30 | Other businesses can be touted as triumphs by other investment banks . |