Example sentences of "as [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 2 | He did so on two grounds : first , that the document had not been duly executed in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 , as substituted for the original section by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ; and , secondly , that the deceased lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 3 | Once this level is set , any change in the output voltage , rise or fall , due to a variation in the load current , for instance , is sensed by the error detector which then causes the error amplifier input to deviate from the reference level , and the resulting output adjusts the series control element resistance in such a direction as to compensate for the initial change . |
| 4 | One of the usual planting media as recommended for the other species of Cryptocoryne is suitable . |
| 5 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 6 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 7 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |
| 8 | The college wants to make the sale , sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners last summer , to set up a fund for maintaining and refurbishing its Founder 's Building , as well as caring for the remaining pictures . |
| 9 | As well as paying for the new building , the Goldsmiths also increased the salaries of the Headmaster and Usher , made the School free again to the scholars , and paid the running costs . |
| 10 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 11 | A sleeve as used for the Aramid lines , Spectra and Dyneema would help , but do n't think of using this material for the flying line ! |
| 12 | The report cites a ‘ strategy of genocide over [ sic ] the Bosnian Muslims ’ as accounting for the widespread looting and destruction of Muslim buildings . |
| 13 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in the fourth century the Franks were also in close contact with the Romans , as allies and as recruits for the imperial forces . |
| 15 | A number of principles , notably that of collective responsibility , have been set out as signposts for the continuing evaluation of services for the under-fives . |
| 16 | Thus , the enterochromaffin like cell density , histamine content and histidine decarboxylase activity of the oxyntic mucosa all increased with increasing gastrin dose up to a maximal level at a gastrin concentration in the same range as found for the maximal histamine releasing and acid stimulatory effect of gastrin . |
| 17 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 19 | Repeat the process as defined for the upper floors , inspecting each room in a convenient order , but with three important additions : inspect for rising damp ; check the security of the windows and doors ; and finally check the meters , valves and fuses etc , associated with the water , gas and electricity supplies . |
| 20 | Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme . |
| 21 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 22 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 23 | The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district . |
| 24 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 25 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 26 | It would clearly take considerable mental agility to square this reading with that emphasizing the comedy of the fabliau put forward here , even in terms of the black humour of the exposure of human baseness as suggested for the French Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin . |
| 27 | The gels were loaded as described for the wild-type endonuclease ( figure 3 ) . |
| 28 | Planting can be undertaken in the same way as described for the conventional pool , but be careful to select only plants that are of modest growth . |
| 29 | To sequence the rest of RO , the entire fragment was cloned in M13 and sequenced as described for the RE' subclones . |