Example sentences of "as [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 2 | These trends continued in a broadly similar pattern over the Heath years ( continuing decline of manual employment in manufacturing and expansion of the salariat accompanied by continuing social mobility ) so perhaps one can understand the revival of the Liberal Party ( with its relative lack of symbolic ‘ class ’ connections , and lack of political ‘ dogmatism ’ ) as reflecting this trend ‘ de-alignment ’ as well as the conjuncture of 1974 . |
| 3 | As well as using this guide and learning from practical experience , an important way of improving our service is for us to continue to be knowledgeable about the broader theory and practice of our work . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , if you would also remain here for a few moments , Madame Ash , perhaps Madame Craig would be so kind as to come this way ? ’ |
| 5 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 6 | As well as implying this criticism of classical economy , Marx 's attitude suggests a new approach to the construction of a social theory . |
| 7 | The range also includes a number of items suitable for a formal tank , as featured this month . |
| 8 | As promised this July , Fujitsu Ltd has released its new VPP500 series of vector parallel processors — claiming them to be the most powerful supercomputers in the world . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 10 | Since prosopagnosia has been associated with right hemisphere damage on purely clinical grounds ( Hécaen and Angelergues , 1962 ; Warrington and James , 1967 ; but see Cole and Perez-Cruet , 1964 ) it is reasonable to interpret the post-mortem findings as confirming this association . |
| 11 | And sometimes as well as going this way we actually need to go in this way too , to actually get it out . |
| 12 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 13 | The rail unions should be putting their own demands in such a way as to reinforce this campaign ; but they have not done so . |
| 14 | Would a European consensus emerge his summer that is more ‘ liberal ’ as regards this case , we will consider amending the UK position without delay . ’ |
| 15 | This is a pretty lonely spot , As regards this side of the road , looking towards mine . |
| 16 | Since we see no reason to treat the other modals or the other uses of could , would or will any differently as regards this aspect of their meaning , we propose therefore that both the modals and the infinitive which follows them express potentialities . |
| 17 | As well as strengthening this connection , it is hoped that other links can be made with US buyers during the trade show . |
| 18 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 19 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |
| 20 | Infidelity was doubly feared as threatening this hope of reunion . |
| 21 | Including Irish women — six of the forty fell into this category — might be seen as contradicting this objective . |
| 22 | Only one other carpet company has been identified as implementing this strategy . |
| 23 | To do this , number each article and associate each number with its own " hook " , for example , your list might begin as follows This time you associate in a ridiculous way bun and aeroplane , pew and clock , bee and carrot and so on . |
| 24 | If a London voluntary body can not agree a budget , as happened this year , the Secretary of State will set one , but will make no allowance for inflation . |
| 25 | I should not have to find out by accident , as happened this morning . |
| 26 | What this pseudo policy rule amounts to is a presumption by agents that the demand management authorities consider an unemployment rate U , to be , in some sense , optimal and that they will adjust monetary and fiscal policies in such a way as to maintain this unemployment rate . |
| 27 | For the expressive value is confirmed when people in good faith try to treat one another in a way appropriate to common membership in a community governed by political integrity and to see each other as making this attempt , even when they disagree about exactly what integrity requires in particular circumstances . |
| 28 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 29 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 30 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |