Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We organized at least a dozen ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ each day — these were mainly unsolicited , but we encouraged more — and spread them about so as to appear in a number of newspapers and magazines across the country . |
| 32 | John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy , attributed the increases to the government 's decision in November 1989 to freeze until 1994 plans to build three other PWRs , and restated the government 's commitment to Sizewell as contributing to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions ( one of the " greenhouse gases " ) . |
| 33 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 34 | A bolt declared in the " instrument " domain may be specified as aligning with a hole declared in the " bracket " . |
| 35 | THREE centres will run pilot schemes of four-year industrially-oriented courses for engineering postgraduate students , as recommended in a report of a panel chaired by Dr John Parnaby of Lucas Applied Technology . |
| 36 | It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime . |
| 37 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 38 | The Oxford Pest Control surveyors , as depicted by a non-Rentokil person ! |
| 39 | It was said that if a claim is directed to a technical process which is carried out under the control of a program ( whether implemented in the hardware or the software ) , then the claim can not be regarded as related to a computer program as such . |
| 40 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 41 | Sessions cover such topics as living on a pension , investments , income tax ; staying healthy and active in retirement ; assessment of local community services ; employment prospects for paid or voluntary work ; accommodation and the pros and cons of moving house after retirement . |
| 42 | To live under an effectively working constitution is not the same as living under a regime of moral laissez-faire . |
| 43 | Think of living in a yacht as living in a caravan , eating out in the evenings . |
| 44 | Write the number in pencil on the outside of the examination book so as to serve as a guide to you later . |
| 45 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 46 | A more modern example is " prime position " as applied to a shop ( Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [ 1988 ] 2 All ER 147 ) . |
| 47 | Consider these principles as applied to a population of ants . |
| 48 | As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care . |
| 49 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 50 | With the addition of café-style furniture , planning and decorative lighting , it could be a pleasant café operation serving teas , coffees and snacks , as well as acting as a focus of activity . |
| 51 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 52 | But you often hear the expression , tack iss stock ope , tachistoscope as presented by a tachistoscope , right , there you go . |
| 53 | Study of three dots , charged , discharged and variously weighted reveals that : ( 1 ) Symmetry , as presented in a void by the equilateral trio , is static . |
| 54 | This is Sigmund Freud 's , as presented in a study Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten . |
| 55 | This light will interact with other incident light through the optical phenomenon of interference , and this will degrade the quality of the retinal image around the optic disc , which the patient perceived ‘ as looking through a bubble . ’ |
| 56 | It could be described as looking like a cross between a snakehead and a goby , the body being long and cylindrical , tapering only slightly at the caudal peduncle . |
| 57 | I 'm building up my own business as well as looking after a husband and three children . |
| 58 | Chas is certainly shown as aspiring to a variety of goals ; these include his aim to have the best war souvenir collection in Garmouth , to detach the machine gun from the crashed aeroplane , to dig his own underground air raid shelter , to build a gun emplacement and to fire the gun . |
| 59 | Section of a potato as seen through a microscope |
| 60 | An artist 's feelings of separation from her family , as seen through a series of fragmentary communications between the artist and her mother . |