Example sentences of "as [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 2 | Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult , but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object . |
| 3 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 4 | The multiple choice format can , in this case , be thought of as demanding a similar sort of thinking to that required when checking an answer obtained by measurement or calculation to see if it is sensible . |
| 5 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 6 | As well as inventing the thin crisp biscuit that bears his name , Sylvester Graham was also the author of one of the most amusing condemnations of sex ever to see the light of day . |
| 7 | By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available . |
| 8 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 9 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 10 | Since the findings of the surveys described in Chapter 6 , the message promoting the lobon-gur solution had been revised so as to include the four different recognised types of diarrhoea and the use of refined sugar as a substitute for gur when the latter was unavailable . |
| 11 | Only very rarely will the conditions be met so as to enable the new firm to act for one of the litigating clients let alone all of them . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the legislature has provided this extraordinary process so as to enable the requisite information to be obtained . |
| 13 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 14 | But Mr. Lester raises a more fundamental argument , with which I agree , that the effect of this court declaring the law in such a way as to enable the local authority to sue in libel , would be interference by a judicial authority with the right of freedom of expression of the press . |
| 15 | This period has seen capitalism shake out labour in such a way as to decimate the working class , now much smaller , living in decaying urban areas , with little chance of upward mobility , and yet create the conditions for a relatively secure middle class . |
| 16 | From the Merovingians to the Habsburgs , European dynasties regarded themselves , and were regarded by their subjects , as enjoying a unique mandate from ‘ on high ’ . |
| 17 | On the plus side , you will be saving on travel and other work-related expenses as well as enjoying a welcome reduction in tax . |
| 18 | So as well as enjoying the renowned quality and attention to detail of our service in the air , you can look forward to the chance of enjoying Jaguar quality on the ground . |
| 19 | There will be similar trouble over the gender difference if indeed as I am suggesting — it is true that ideas about the meaning of maleness have distorted moral thinking in our culture quite deeply , so as to affect the whole concept of individuality , and thereby condition the way in which some central metaphysical issues are seen . |
| 20 | A ; Oh for heavens sake where the heck is this bus honestly it 's about as rare as seeing a three legged duck walking along the High Street with a shopping trolley . |
| 21 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 24 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 25 | This project will also attempt to establish just how information from the two modalities converge by systematically manipulating them in such a way as to disrupt the normal manner of combining them . |
| 26 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 27 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 28 | Perhaps so , but it seems to me that , if the experience curve is understood as reflecting the continued , planned desire for cost leadership as more is produced , the expression of the curve and the learning rate provide a useful way of monitoring cost-reduction possibilities and helping to formulate strategy . |
| 29 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 30 | They would , moreover , analyse these factors as reflecting the capitalist social organization of production . |