Example sentences of "as [verb] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK , however , is far from happy about the prospect and sees it as helping to create a paradise for criminals , terrorists and drug traffickers . |
| 2 | Milic sees this habit as having a role in Swift 's persuasive rhetoric : as helping to create an impression of consummate logical clarity . |
| 3 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |
| 4 | The dual purpose of the book was identified as attempting to present a view of landscape and processes in terms relevant to the student of human geography by indicating the ways in which socioeconomic and physical systems interlock and interact , and also by showing how far knowledge of the physical world and its processes is compatible with the ideas of systems theory to demonstrate areas in which research might profitably be concentrated . |
| 5 | PDF Writer , geared for Macintosh and personal computers running Windows , will convert a file to PDF using the same procedure as used to print a document . |
| 6 | Bede presents Aethelred as abdicating to become a monk in 704 after a reign of thirty years ( HE V , 24 ) , but the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 704 ) states that he held the kingdom for twenty-nine years , that is , he died in his thirtieth year . |
| 7 | Dungannon face Munster visitors Highfield tomorrow at Stevenson Park , but will be without centre duo Paul Archer and Alan Burns as well as having to find a player to fill the void left by Willie Anderson . |
| 8 | He also fails to note that the Eastern Board 's proposal to remove obstetric services from Downpatrick is described by them in their same document as intending to produce an improvement in entirely wrong . |
| 9 | But to leave it there is about as practical as learning to fly an aeroplane by reading a book on the subject . |
| 10 | And that 's a sort of fairly normal function of a of any bypass is to particularly of a larger er urban area as opposed to say a village or a small town is to have connecti connections in er to the to the larger urban area at a number of points . |
| 11 | He said he and his wife paid 30,000 roubles as bribes to get a bag with the grenades in it through security at the airport at the Siberian oil capital of Tyumen . |
| 12 | This is as difficult as trying to square a circle . |
| 13 | Veblen portrays this class as determined to create a distance between themselves and that world of necessity which was the foundation of their fortune . |
| 14 | The two rivals ' remarks came as attempts to negotiate a truce in the bitter struggle between parliament and Mr Yeltsin 's executive seemed close to collapse . |
| 15 | The attacks were viewed as attempts to sabotage an agreement with Japan for a loan of US$403,000,000 to support the balance of payments and guarantee Peru 's re-entry to the international financial community . |
| 16 | The second Activity is concerned with tailoring the method to suit the particular circumstances , and the FAOR package introduces the concept of instruments , each representing a pre-packaged set of tools , techniques and application principles which can be used as required to address a situation from a desired viewpoint . |
| 17 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 18 | Scarlet felt foolish and rather jealous : she knew that if she so much as failed to pay a parking ticket , the full force of the law would be upon her like a ton of bricks . |