Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 2 | Suggestions about school-based strategies , including changes in schooling , emanating from researchers and Her Majesty 's Inspectorate will appeal to some teachers ; others will regard the law as rightly emphasising parental responsibility and in need of tougher enforcement . |
| 3 | Should we conceptualize local politics as merely denoting local voting behaviour , or should we include geographical variations in a range of political activity and experience ? |
| 4 | Indeed by virtue of the fact that the clause will be seen as merely adding extra information the natural presumption must be that this is not the basis for " recognizability " . |
| 5 | Exploratory statistics might reasonably be described as highly systematized common sense . |
| 6 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 7 | As I have already emphasized , withholding attention so as not to reinforce undesirable behaviour should be only one part of a dual strategy ; the other essential component is a positive and active policy of reinforcing ( rewarding ) good behaviour . |
| 8 | The execution … of the Saviour 's plan required the prudent application of wise and well-judged measures so as not to injure private property , not to disturb civil order , not to expose Christianity to the scandal of sedition , not to obscure the glory of a Kingdom not of this world . |
| 9 | The guides suggested that Johnson , so as not to tire one horse wholly , should alternate between mounts . |
| 10 | They walked on grass , so as not to make any noise on the road . |
| 11 | As well as not making top grade in IT industry , France seems to have fallen short of ambitions in using the technology . |
| 12 | Dispose of it carefully ( preferably not down the toilet ! ) so as not to spill any semen . |
| 13 | I detest Santiago de Torres , Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture , ‘ who personally blocked all possible sources of information ’ , so as not to present any obstacle to the successful removal of that shoal of piranha fish that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 14 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 15 | However , as Colin Gray indicated , they are either within striking distance of current LASMO operations — where it would be relatively straightforward and economical to tie in a smaller discovery to an existing field — or otherwise they offer such exciting prospects as possibly to warrant major investment . |
| 16 | The former have been seen , particularly in the Fascist period , as decisively shaping cultural policy . |
| 17 | and if you define ‘ regressive rock ’ as deliberately induced arrested development , then you can add the whole Grebo Rock boom to the list ( Crazyhead , Zodiac Mindwarp , Gaye Bykers , Batfish , The Cult , Bomb Party etc ) . |
| 18 | Dorigo : Looked as classy as ever made some wonderfull runs along the wing was never in trouble . |
| 19 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 20 | This means that customers can use X25 to establish Telnet sessions , as well as concurrently routing other traffic such as IPX over X25 . |
| 21 | Usually δ for a polymer is established by finding the solvent which will produce maximum swelling of a network or the largest value of the limiting viscosity number , as both indicate maximum compatibility . |
| 22 | The two sides in Contention for Area 3 honours , Hallamshire Sheffield and the City of Nottingham , both continued their winning ways , as both enjoyed fruitful home victories over Watchorn Alfreton and Melton Mowbray respectively . |
| 23 | You may regard the ‘ talk ’ you do at work as mainly having this function ; a lot of people do . |
| 24 | Then as before take one tablespoon from the stock bottle and add to 8–10 tablespoons of water in a clean cup or glass . |
| 25 | This must continue to be funded as before to maintain basic development of the technology . |
| 26 | The latter case is the more straightforward since he presents the impact of Newton 's theory of coloured light as radically reorientating this area . |
| 27 | These measures were seen as indirectly reducing condoned truancy . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll take yer to 'im , you might as well meet each other now . ’ |
| 29 | I might as well do some work . ’ |
| 30 | If he is in there , then he is in there , and they might as well bring each other what comfort they can . |