Example sentences of "as [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clause would not normally be construed as allowing one party to render no performance at all , as such a clause would undermine the main purpose of the contract . |
| 2 | Atomism made sense of the language of chemistry in that , if each symbol is understood as representing one atom , one can ask questions about how they are arranged ; if the symbols merely represent numbers , equivalent weights , then everything is much more abstract . |
| 3 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 4 | This involved defining a ‘ pack year ’ as smoking one pack per day for one year , half a pack per day for two years , etc . |
| 5 | The pupils falling into the category of persistent truants were described by experienced staff in the case-study schools as exhibiting one symptom of deep-rooted social , emotional or economic problems . |
| 6 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 7 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 8 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 9 | It was as if he saw us as having one life between us . |
| 10 | So we 're going to do this exercise within this room and we 'll need to rearrange the tables , so I suggest that each group as having one table or two tables , put it in a square to work around . |
| 11 | Neither , sometimes could his disciples understand their master , rambling when drunk , as observed one evening by British novelist Kingsley Amis when they shared a college platform in Boston debating new liberalism . |
| 12 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 13 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 14 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 15 | These segments of society have been regarded as constituting one side of a dual labour-market ( Lever , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |