Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | X-Windows technology suppliers are bandying together as the X Industry Association to promote X at the behest of the X Business Group . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay . |
| 4 | Remember people promote themselves , we 're growing fast as a division , make sure each and every one of you grow with us . |
| 5 | We 're remaining here as a marker until the diving ship arrives . ’ |
| 6 | The foundation , which has adopted the principles and guidelines of the German-based International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements , aims to provide assistance and education to private farmers , whose numbers are growing rapidly as a result of land reform and the breaking up of collective farms . |
| 7 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 8 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 9 | Fran watched the raindrops running down the glass panes , wishing foolishly that the sun had been shining again as a sort of omen . |
| 10 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 11 | The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him . |
| 12 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't forget I 'm staying here as Ward Dexter . |
| 14 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 15 | They concern the design section of G.W. Fashions — the department you 'll be joining shortly as head . ’ |
| 16 | Even though people are perceiving what I 'm doing now as the sexy new me , I just feel like it 's more … me . ’ |
| 17 | Schools , colleges , sports clubs and families which will be exercising tomorrow as part of their normal fitness routine can also register . |
| 18 | I 'm talking now as a consumer . |
| 19 | McKillop seemed to be thinking hard as if struggling with some mathematical conundrum . |
| 20 | One should not be surprised at the offsetting movements of currencies , since if some currencies are appreciating then as a matter of arithmetic other currencies must be depreciating . |
| 21 | And I am voting tonight as a vote of confidence in John Major . ’ |
| 22 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 23 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 24 | Well just another appalling slaughter of very innocent people , and it really is quite incredible that the people who carried out these terrible murders said they were doing so as retaliation for similar slaughter of people in the Shankhill Road last week . |
| 25 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 26 | But there they were working together as a community , there in the great communal fields , where everybody had their own plot , but working together . |
| 27 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 28 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 29 | And it is looking increasingly as if the date will be as much Mr Mandela 's own decision as the government 's . |
| 30 | Now it 's reviving again as part of vehicle companies long-term strategy , says Ricardo , with much USA-based activity centred on methanol . |