Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 2 | Ullman 's general approach suggests that these could well be relatively low-level processes , not requiring cerebral computations ( as puzzling out the correct values of the variables in the formula for Snell 's law presumably does ) . |
| 3 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 4 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 5 | These later , more extensive , excavations brought various new finds to the surface as well as picking out the original flint walls . |
| 6 | As well as cleaning up the whole environment , the main task , as far as IXI is concerned , is to make Motif portable across platforms . |
| 7 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 8 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 9 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 10 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 11 | If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes . |
| 12 | How long will it be before the Student Loans Company will be able to administer mandatory grants as well as cut out the middle man ? |
| 13 | Many clients saw headhunters as taking on the dirty work , and many candidates obviously shared this view . |
| 14 | As well as tidying up the whole system , it re-affirms that the doctrine of saints has a place , but not the central place , in Catholic piety . |
| 15 | Receptionists are expected to be charming , tactful , diplomatic and capable of dealing with members of the public as well as carrying out the innumerable tasks that ensure the smooth and efficient running of the office . |
| 16 | The four volumes of this work are to be accompanied soon by a further five , the whole series presented as making up the definitive study of of quantum theory in an historical context . |
| 17 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 18 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 19 | As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers . |