Example sentences of "as [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes . |
| 2 | He defined the need for special forces in the area : first as troops for post-occupational duties in captured territories ; second , as ‘ small raiding parties of the thug variety , for which we have L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade and the Special Boat Section ’ ; and finally as raiding parties on a larger scale which was the original purpose in retaining the old Middle East Commando . |
| 3 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 4 | He called the initial words of section 5 important as drawing attention to the ‘ paramount ’ financing provisions of section 7(3) . |
| 5 | In this conception of the state the bureaucracy is seen as drawing strength from different groups . |
| 6 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 7 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 8 | The technician service to the department is provided in such a way as to support equality of opportunity for pupils taught and also for staff employed in the department . |
| 9 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
| 10 | Yet throughout its recent history WACC has tried to broaden the perspective so as to include life as a whole and those issues of society which are crucial from the perspective of God 's reign . |
| 11 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 12 | Or usage of the term may be extended to aspects of the macro-environment so as to include information on the economic , financial , political , legal , social , cultural and technological situations . |
| 13 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 14 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 15 | Carol Christ well writes in disagreement with Schüssler Fiorenza : ‘ To acknowledge a kind of intellectual and conceptual debt to Western biblical traditions is not the same as to acknowledge loyalty to those traditions . ’ |
| 16 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 17 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 18 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 19 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 20 | This action is seen as absolving Pilate of guilt for the death of Jesus . |
| 21 | Rank 's Simon and Laura ( 1955 ) pursued a different tack , mocking TV for the phoniness of its images of life through the story of a married couple in a TV soap , who are represented as cooing doves on the screen when in reality they always bicker and squabble . |
| 22 | Despite this , however , one British magazine went as fare as accusing Carol of turning Kylie into an anorexic . |
| 23 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 24 | Their targets were frequently public houses used as gathering places by the Provisional IRA and the chance of killing co-religionists was small . |
| 25 | As well as gathering information about parental hopes and beliefs it 's important that detailed knowledge is gathered about home language , religion and culture so that sensitive and effective links can be established . |
| 26 | This visit to Coy in London was logged as gathering information on Nicholson . ’ |
| 27 | This report identified the principal tasks for management as gathering information on supply and demand , planning for change , allocating resources and general supervision . |
| 28 | Terns , redshanks and sand plovers were also at risk , together with birds accustomed to using the coastal mudflats as resting points on seasonal migrations between Siberia and East Africa . |
| 29 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 30 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |