Example sentences of "as [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Any group that acts in such a way as to threaten to disturb the smooth running of the governmental organization is likely to be seen ( often rightly ) as a challenge to the status quo . |
| 32 | Use the VMS Authorize utility as follows to change the process quotas if they are not available . |
| 33 | Use the VMS Authorize utility as follows to grant the privileges if they are not available : |
| 34 | The church of the apostolic age sought to identify itself with the ‘ poor ’ whom Jesus had declared blessed ( Luke 6 : 20 ) ; or had he meant the ‘ poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. 5 : 3 ) , the humble-hearted , who could hold their property without pride as means to support the destitute ? |
| 35 | I am not such a fathead as to attempt to describe the pleasure of eating , but I would draw your attention to the vegetable soup cooked with a hambone ( le garbure ) , to the river trout braised in Henri IV 's favourite Juranon wine , the grilled breast of duck . |
| 36 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 37 | Prior to this ( CHECK ) the user must hold a light-coloured rectangular test card in such a way as to attempt to cover the top of the field of view but not the bottom . |
| 38 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 39 | It is as rude as spitting to turn the soles of your feet toward anyone , so stretching your legs in front of you becomes nearly impossible . |
| 40 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 41 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 42 | ‘ It is somehow seen as trying to soften the cross-examination of an alleged victim , and is somehow seen as more acceptable . ’ |
| 43 | As well as trying to avoid the numerous pot-holes along the route , not always successfully , Myeloski was not the most accomplished of drivers , being one of those people who were never quite in tune with their machine . |
| 44 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 45 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |
| 46 | Having the same general intention is not the same as trying to solve the same problem . |
| 47 | The obverse of Wilson 's attack on the ‘ grouse-moor ’ Tories was his promotion of the Labour Party as ‘ modern ’ and ‘ scientific ’ , as poised to release the ‘ technological revolution ’ . |
| 48 | When the group failed to contact their fighter escort , they turned as planned to bomb the secondary target , the docks at Kiel . |
| 49 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 50 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 51 | Attempts to justify the probabilistic version of the principle of induction by appeal to experience must suffer from the same deficiency as attempts to justify the principle in its original form . |
| 52 | These novels can be read as attempts to reconstruct the fragmentary apprehension of the past . |
| 53 | Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries . |
| 54 | Reaction from opposition leaders was more muted and the Independent of April 10 described the parties as agreeing to support the measures " in the national interest " . |
| 55 | The clever part is that this frame can be manipulated to make it into an irregular shape as required to match the text to the graphic . |
| 56 | Yet for some time the imposition of this compromise was resisted and resented as seeming to undermine the spirit of the ritual methods . |
| 57 | For example , under the provisions of the Transport Act 1962 , the secretary of State for Transport appoints the external auditors of the accounts of the British Railways Board ( the auditors must , incidentally , be members of one of the professional accountancy bodies recognized as qualified to undertake the audit of limited liability companies ) . |
| 58 | Newspaper announcement , June 1794 : ‘ The public are most respectfully informed that Mr Edmund Bond ( late a Pupil of the Veterinary College ) has undergone an Examination before the Medical Committee , and the following is a Copy of their Report : These are to certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a Resident Pupil for Eighteen Months , and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art . |
| 59 | He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ . |