Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is intended to provide household water to 30 million people , and irrigate crops which could feed 20 million , as well as generating large quantities of hydro-electric power .
2 This is widely recognized as one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the successful implementation of any innovation , and particularly one such as profiling which requires teachers to find time for a new kind of activity , namely one-to-one discussion with pupils , as well as completing detailed records .
3 And second , it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets .
4 Up to 3,000 students at Bucharest Polytechnic , as well as demanding sweeping changes in education policy , expressed concern that the NSF was dominated by communists who were trying to ensure that they stayed in power by scheduling the elections so that the emerging political parties would have little time to organize .
5 For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people .
6 He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls .
7 Winsor & Newton 's metallic effect acrylic paints create a reasonably convincing impression of the materials they are intended to represent and re-open traditional avenues for the decoration of paintings as well as suggesting new ones .
8 As well as suggesting possible improvements , older people may also identify gaps in their local council services .
9 The crucial area of debate centres upon whether the signals from ecologically fragile and marginal areas will reach institutions and governments so as to induce appropriate innovations for those areas .
10 They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past .
11 One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter .
12 But , as we shall see , in Marxist scholarship there are those who have modified Marx original theory so as to accommodate these changes in a way which is consistent with the original insight about the determined nature of the locus of power in capitalist societies .
13 One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others .
14 It seems that ‘ differentiation ’ is being redefined once again , so as to include democratic institutions and a market economy .
15 ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council .
16 Our results , therefore , agree with those of previous investigators who have noted that parietal cells are present in fetal stomachs from 11 gestational weeks as differentiated epithelial cells which represent adult parietal cells in both structure and histochemical staining .
17 The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 .
18 As well as enjoying local amenities , excursions could be made to the more famous and extensive Bois with their artificially created lakes , waterfalls and grottoes .
19 Christie 's in King Street , St James 's also give big summer and winter parties , which are the greatest fun and where one meets so many friends , as well as seeing exciting items for sale .
20 He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse .
21 As well as charting chronological developments in alloying , it is also possible to examine those changes dictated by the specialised use of artefacts .
22 It is only changes in test scores which exceed these reliability estimates that can be regarded as reflecting real changes in the child 's ability .
23 Forms of government intervention in other societies are seen by Marxists as reflecting varying degrees of class forces .
24 The interplay between semantic and social conditioning factors may then be interpreted as reflecting differential preferences by social groups for certain communicative styles which involve different degrees of assertiveness .
25 The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue .
26 The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population .
27 How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ?
28 Even categories such as time and number , which many of us take as reflecting basic aspects of experience , are only optionally indicated in some Asian languages such as Chinese and Vietnamese .
29 The Luxembourg session was represented as a " political agreement " and the subsequent Salzburg disagreement as reflecting different interpretations of how this was to be translated into concrete terms ; " on some outstanding questions the respective positions were converging , while on others further work remained necessary " .
30 The paper looks at the role of local authorities , and ways of stimulating demand for craft products as well as maintaining historic buildings .
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