Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As explained elsewhere classical technique is the most demanding . |
| 2 | And as well as producing less secondary waste , the dry-ice system is also gentle enough to be used on things too delicate to withstand sand . |
| 3 | The ‘ enabling state ’ and the concept of empowering people have been interpreted as encouraging more individual consumer choice and limited , voluntary self-help welfare activity and ‘ community care ’ ( Thatcher , 1985 ; Ridley , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Its approach will be to guarantee participating companies ' anonymity so as to obtain as much information as possible , to analyse companies ' experience in implementing the code , and to investigate other methods employed in furthering corporate governance . |
| 5 | The two companies were portrayed as representing totally contrasting management philosophies . |
| 6 | Simplified , you can view the Greens as vintage-style tones , the Yellows as representing more modern settings with higher gain , while Reds are bright , overdriven lead sounds . |
| 7 | In view of the terms of those dicta , the paucity of cases in which the discretion has been exercised so as to exclude legally admissible evidence is not surprising . |
| 8 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 9 | The emergence of educational policies which focus on the school and college experiences of black and female students necessitates the use of ‘ race ’ and sex as significant categories , labelling students in such a way as to highlight both specific aspects of their identity and group membership and particular educational problems . |
| 10 | The Constitution , defining Romania as a " democratic and social state " and criticized by opposition parties as according too much power to the President , came into effect immediately . |
| 11 | In the 1968 ( Ministry of Health 1968 ) proposals , the boards were envisaged as operating as small executive management teams , with the senior administrator acting as managing director and with far less professional and medical input into decision-making . |
| 12 | This was linked to ideas of motherhood as confirming both male virility , and adult femininity . |
| 13 | They are seen as paying too much attention to narrow financial criteria , but insufficient attention to other important and vital factors like management skills and technical knowledge . |
| 14 | In addition there are constraints imposed by the Soviet economy itself : it is likely that , as Cole Blasier suggests , ‘ Soviet resources are still so limited as to discourage purely political use . |
| 15 | It is a scurrilous romp through the poet HC Artmann 's mildly subversive modern children 's songs , which seek out the clay feet of contemporary heroes like Batman and Superman , as well as invoking more traditional horrors . |
| 16 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 17 | Knowing the time the dot was in any particular position , Libet was able to calculate that on average the experience of the conscious intention to act was reported as beginning about 200 msec before the movement began . |
| 18 | Spatial modelling can be considered as providing initially two levels of crude solid model ; the first being an orthogonal brick in the reference space and the second an orthogonal brick interpreted in the local coordinate system . |
| 19 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 20 | They are no longer isolated and no longer see computers as providing mainly internal services such as payroll and stock control . |
| 21 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 22 | He told the Street 's fan magazine that the soap was envisaged as lasting only 13 episodes — of which Warren wrote 12 — and with quite a different name . |
| 23 | I 'd doubt he 'd like this as outpacing fast full back would not be his strongest point . |
| 24 | All four modems delivered great-looking faxes as well as doubling as useful data modems . |
| 25 | At the same time , the English government responded favourably to peace overtures from Pope Gregory XI , who was anxious on the one hand to unite the rulers of western Christendom in a crusade , and on the other to tax the western churches so as to fund both this endeavour and his political and diplomatic schemes in Italy . |
| 26 | The Council itself came under criticism in the late 1960s as containing too few members from the colleges and polytechnics , especially members other than principals and directors . |
| 27 | Thirdly , it depicted a mental hospital as containing mentally handicapped adults who were sexually perverse or completely unable to look after themselves ; suggesting that this was typical of most mentally handicapped people . |
| 28 | Presumably he did n't rate the Stalinvast operation as requiring really major surgery — even though thirty hive cities had been devastated to date and several totally destroyed . |
| 29 | As well as requiring highly developed skills of tact , and negotiation , a good working knowledge of industry and education is required . |
| 30 | Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality . |