Example sentences of "as [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 2 | The idea was proposed to Priestley that his carbonated water , which could be prepared on board , might provide doses of carbon dioxide and thus prevent scurvy ( as well as make the distilled sea water more palatable ) . |
| 3 | We recommend contacting Cedok once you know where you want to go as they can arrange package holidays as well as provide a great deal of information for the independent traveller . |
| 4 | If you want a career that ensures that you will not be bored , will be stretched to your full capacity every day and allows you to be yourself , as well as earn a good salary at a general manager level — £30,000 a year — you could do a lot worse than the hotel and catering industry . |
| 5 | By obtaining the full car licence , you are able to buy a vehicle which is and can be a lethal weapon in the hands of wrong people , but this motion calls for constraints to be placed upon people when they obtain that full licence and at twelve hundred C C you can have enough power as well as enjoy the driving for the future . |
| 6 | His ‘ unconditional ’ release , by which it is understood he will be able to operate freely in politics , represents a risk for Mr de Klerk , since it is clear Mr Sisulu will have a capacity to generate mass political gatherings , as well as give a revitalised direction to anti-apartheid politics . |
| 7 | Add a positive number is the same as a these are all the things you do with positive numbers , this is add a positive number is the same as add a positive number , right . |
| 8 | Add take away a negative number is the same as add the positive number . |
| 9 | The interesting one is when we 've got take away a minus three , that 's the same as add the positive three , add plus three . |
| 10 | They would give the President the right to appoint and dismiss ministers , and to veto a parliamentary no confidence vote in the government , as well as allow a simple majority in the Sejm to be sufficient to approve legislation ( instead of the current two-thirds majority ) . |
| 11 | Next , the process of expansion would undermine all those institutions which expressed the highly personalised private enterprise which for him was the essence of capitalism ( such as the change in ownership from individual proprietorship to equity participation in large corporations ) , as well as destroy the protecting strata — the aristocracy , farmers and small business — on which it depended . |
| 12 | Two integral handrails give confidence to the user , as do the deep comfortable treads . |
| 13 | The Suisse Romande Orchestra may still not occupy a position among the top rank of world orchestras , but at least they sound as thought they care deeply about what they are doing , as do the combined Lausanne and Chambre Romand Choirs . ( ) |
| 14 | To comment on the missing issues from the general election , as do the various articles in your issue of 17 April , without recognition that at least some of the parties tried to widen the political agenda , is to provide a very incomplete analysis for finding the way forward . |
| 15 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 16 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |
| 17 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 18 | Nearby , in the south , is a sink that also connects , as do the other openings , with the Great Douk Cave system . |
| 19 | They also , as do the other groups , regularly perform in the hotels and some typical restaurants in the island . |
| 20 | Of course , this could apply to the Mistress or to the poet , but in its absence of relationship it stands apart , as do the other sonnets of this type , as general observations on phases of human love , common at certain times to all men and women . |
| 21 | Pembroke 's execution , on Warwick 's orders , has the air of a private act of revenge , as do the other executions which followed Edgecote . |
| 22 | Pembroke 's execution , on Warwick 's orders , has the air of a private act of revenge , as do the other executions which followed Edgecote . |
| 23 | They do not merely follow others who have already adopted the product , as do the following three catagories ; |
| 24 | Herbs and vegetables come from the garden as do the pre-prandial hazelnuts . |
| 25 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 26 | Is the Minister aware that many of the schemes in the report now appear dated , as do the geographical definitions of the areas that can benefit ? |
| 27 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 28 | Water conditions have an important effect on their performance as do the correct functioning of water softeners if fitted . |
| 29 | The Etruscans were great builders and in this respect they occupy a similar relationship to the Romans in the development of architecture as do the Pelasgic and Minoan peoples to the Greek . |
| 30 | This represents a £70 saving , as do the new Miami and Orlando return fares of £309 and the £319 returns to Chicago , Dallas-Fort Worth , Detroit and Houston . |