Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although Ajdabiya and Kufra were theoretically sovereign , it would be a mistake to think of their independence as deriving directly from central policy . |
| 2 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 3 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 4 | Silence now is a vote for expense , inconvenience , accident risk , and further environmental degradation , as witnessed daily by thousands . |
| 5 | The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area . |
| 6 | Whatever the outcome , T&L has no wish to be perceived as depending heavily on one product , having spent the past decade , in Shaw 's words , ‘ building a broader base ’ . |
| 7 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 8 | Increasing calcium in the diet as recommended earlier in this chapter is another , along with vitamin D — both needed to aid bone metabolism . |
| 9 | Or at any rate , with higher education as sketched out in this book ? |
| 10 | This is because the non-singular matrix may be regarded as made up of elementary operations , and these can not change the rank of a non-vanishing minor of order r . |
| 11 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 12 | Her theory ( discussed in Chapter 2 ) postulates that the general population may be conceived as made up of two overlapping distributions ( see Fig. 1 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 13 | If social life is seen as no longer ideally ordered but as made up of every-day material practices , and painting is part and parcel of social life , then painting should be made up of similar practices . |
| 14 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 15 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 16 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 17 | In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space . |
| 18 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |
| 19 | As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling , so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups . |
| 20 | Devoting a section of your garden to a particular type of plant can be very effective and attractive indeed , as seen here in this collection of shrub roses . |
| 21 | As seen earlier in this Chapter , services in this church were conducted by deaf people themselves in sign language . |
| 22 | Information can be extracted from the data base at various levels , each containing more detail as searched down through lower levels . |
| 23 | Charles had decided on battle as the only way to cut through the competing loyalties and quite literally , reduce the number of Carolingian competitors : thus , as the only way to secure himself a kingdom that included Aquitaine along with the lion 's share of Francia ( as promised originally in 837 ) ; but also , as the only way to secure an outcome all would accept as definitive — a Judgement of God . |
| 24 | Arrange the triangles as shown below with 1 and 3 on top of 2 . |
| 25 | the first part ( Excess ) as shown hereunder of any amount otherwise payable in respect of each and every occurrence of loss or damage ( other than by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft ) occurring while such motor car is being driven by any person who is |
| 26 | Nor was the pope immune from criticism and the new pope , Innocent , is described by one writer as caring only for worldly goods . |
| 27 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 28 | In the current era of food surpluses , efforts are being made to reduce production , both by political manoeuvre ( e.g. set aside and diversification ) and a return to sustainable systems of agriculture which are perceived as going back to traditional methods . |
| 29 | During the infusion , the animals were kept in semirestraining Bollman type cages as used also in secretory studies . |
| 30 | The rules would normally specify that the completion accounts are to be prepared in accordance with : ( a ) generally accepted accounting practices or the statements of standard accounting practice ( SSAPs ) in order to give a true and fair view ; ( b ) the same accounting practices as used consistently in previous accounts of the business , normally over a period of several years ; ( c ) specific accounting rules legislated for in the sale agreement . |