Example sentences of "as [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pay attention to plants and flowers and make sure that you have your lighting on dimmer switches so that you can dim it right down for dining as well as drawing a veil over any kitchen clutter . |
| 2 | But he continued to broadcast and write a weekly column for the Armagh Gazette as well as completing a book of rural tales , And the Band Played On , published by Friar 's Bush Press . |
| 3 | It was played in October , and during their visit Chapman and his party went to Hampden Park and to the Glasgow Industrial Exhibition at Kelvin Park , as well as enjoying a sing-song at the Alhambra Music Hall . |
| 4 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 5 | Claude Simon has also indicated that he considered the causality and confidence of the traditional novel as perpetuating a misrepresentation of reality . |
| 6 | This is because the National Accounts treat the household purchase as self-gratification , but the firm purchase as producing a flow of marketable goods and services . |
| 7 | In the mass production enterprise the individual worker is dwarfed by the machinery which is experienced as producing a sense of threat and inadequacy , even though , in actuality , the machinery is only a realisation of man 's logical thinking in response to the requirements of high technical efficiency . |
| 8 | This just is n't the same as using a notebook in transit . |
| 9 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 10 | So Mr Li made it clear that the state will go on bailing out the inefficient state-owned juggernauts , as well as subsidising a range of things from rice to city rents . |
| 11 | The report recommends that the Ministry of Agriculture should take an active role in preventing unnecessary loss of farmland to development , and explore ways of finding more non-agricultural uses of rural land , as well as encouraging a reduction in the intensity of agricultural production . |
| 12 | To do this , the researcher has to remain detached from the group at the same time as becoming a member of it . |
| 13 | On May 22 , 1990 , the new Premier Antall read the government programme which included joining the EC within the decade as well as becoming a member of the new European security order . |
| 14 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 15 | The statement , issued by Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh at the end of three days of talks in Washington , was interpreted in some quarters as representing a softening of the US demand for Iraq 's unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 16 | Indeed , to see them as representing a kind of problem to which some solution might be found is to misunderstand their nature . |
| 17 | But if one issue is to be singled out as representing a point of potential conflict between partners at this time it will most likely concern the relationship between home and employment . |
| 18 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Bateson 's work is seen as challenging a view of literature as the product of " social forces " in favour of an analysis based upon the language poets had to use in any given period . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not as simple now as signing a contract with somebody , ’ says Phillips . |
| 21 | Perhaps those who live according to another theory of school see their rejection of the official line as contributing a dash of machismo to their public reputation . |
| 22 | I was in charge of weekly wages and organized shifts and hours , as well as keeping a check on the quantities of tomatoes brought in and weighed at the entrance of the factory . |
| 23 | Very few alto players have produced as dazzling a body of work and gained as much respect from their peers as Bobby Watson . |
| 24 | As well as climbing a total of 4,000 feet — there are four peaks to scale — they will complete an evening rope walk , orienteer for their supper and abseil down a 90-foot ( usually frozen ) waterfall . |
| 25 | British-born Rachel , who now lives in LA , has decorated her California home in English country style ( but more cottage than grand manor ) , at the same time as launching a number of furniture stores which reflect her personal taste . |
| 26 | This provision shall not be taken as prejudicing a finding to the effect that a person 's occupation of any land is by implied permission of the person entitled to the land in any case where such a finding is justified on the actual facts of the case … |
| 27 | The reward for doing so has been stated as revealing a view of the towers of York Minster , a claim difficult to believe without visual evidence . |
| 28 | But Benedict 's eyes were on her , as compelling a question in them as had been in those of his godmother . |
| 29 | Internationally , the new Country of the ‘ Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ’ was renamed Yugoslavia , also the Lateran treaties were signed , creating a new , entirely independent , state known as Vatican City , and provided the Papacy with a large endowment as well as embodying a Concordat with the Italian state that acknowledged the end of temporal power . |
| 30 | Often they are taken as implying a rejection of the kind of view which was held by Bertrand Russell and , less recently , by Isaac Watts . |