Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as covenants to alienate income the provisions will also apply to trusts , agreements or arrangements to alienate income ( TA 1988 , s660(3) ) . |
| 2 | The working group warn instead that , as measures to control sulphur emissions ( in an effort to cut " acid rain " pollution ) and to limit ozone depletion take effect , global warming will accelerate sharply , with unpredictable and violent consequences . |
| 3 | These explanations were only given as answers to direct questions . |
| 4 | The upward portions of writing serve mainly as ligatures to join characters together . |
| 5 | Standard letters of this kind are very useful as replies to stock enquiries . |
| 6 | ( You may occasionally see an old skin for sale as CITES makes exceptions for specimens acquired before the convention came into force . ) |
| 7 | Can you please tell me what the rules are as regards holding cash , as I have recently taken out a personal equity plan ? |
| 8 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 9 | I stretched the paper onto a full size Peter Welton Frame , which makes life easier as regards stretching paper , but also gives you a firm support to work against . |
| 10 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 11 | The travel agents have even had to return cheques and cash that have been sent in as deposits to secure places on the proposed flights . |
| 12 | This latter provision was seen as means to assure NATO that certain Warsaw Pact aircraft could not be used for offensive purposes . |
| 13 | If this is the case extrapolated profiles are best regarded as means to supplement knowledge rather than as a primary method . |
| 14 | As he points out , the difference between the asset value and the depressed share price of the conglomerates concerned gave bidders an opportunity to make a profit by disposing of ill-fitting activities or otherwise increasing efficiency by reducing the scale of operations ( though in fact the record of take-overs in increasing efficiency is mixed and not all take-overs are explicable as moves to reduce inefficiency in the target ) . |
| 15 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 16 | The design of the kite plays its part in determining the size of the flight envelope just as much as does wind strength . |
| 17 | These too started as promises to exchange paper for gold , but soon became currency , a normal medium for exchange of goods and services . |
| 18 | Most mixed economy interventions involve the state in subsidizing or taking over the organization of necessary economic activities unprofitable for capital ; and most welfare policies can be understood as attempts to socialize labour costs falling on businesses , which become financed out of general taxation instead of showing up directly in employers ' wage bills and production costs . |
| 19 | It was also urged that science should progress by the proposal of bold , highly falsifiable conjectures as attempts to solve problems , followed by ruthless attempts to falsify the new proposals . |
| 20 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 21 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |