Example sentences of "as [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in his appraisal of the eighteenth century he uses ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ Newtonian ’ as predicates to create the impression of an hypostasised activity which stood separate from art and other aspects of Western culture , including philosophy . |
| 2 | I would reject this argument as calculated to undermine the proper administration of a department of state . |
| 3 | The meeting in Minsk was described as intended to prevent the splitting apart of the Slav republics in the conditions of the Soviet Union 's disintegration . |
| 4 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 5 | He had taken part in the search that morning for a while , talked to some of the children from the school , as well as helping to organize the house-to-house . |
| 6 | In India he developed his work among students , and founded the first Christian hostel for students at the University of Poona , as well as helping to build the ashram at Poona . |
| 7 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |
| 8 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 9 | Some Europeans saw these policies as designed to subjugate the computer industries , not only of eastern Europe , but of western Europe as well . |
| 10 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 11 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 12 | One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . |
| 13 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
| 14 | Laczko and Phillipson do not suggest following the course taken by the United States and introducing an Age Discrimination in Employment Act , but they are convinced that it is important to press for legislation as well as seeking to improve the attitudes of employers . |
| 15 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 16 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 17 | Mr Newton , choosing his words carefully , said the Government would ‘ certainly ensure the needs and interests of western Grampian and Argyll and Bute are taken fully into account at the same time as seeking to achieve the best outcome for the Highlands and Islands ’ . |
| 18 | Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) attribute most of these difficulties to the problem of courses in BSL which are currently provided in the UK , as tending to strengthen the Englishness of sign use among hearing people . |
| 19 | For colour output the dot patterns can be rotated as shown to reduce the number of red + green + blue overprints ( which are printed as something approaching black ) . |
| 20 | As well as attempting to limit the work of married women , policies to protect motherhood and enhance the welfare of children extended the direct surveillance of working class women in their homes . |
| 21 | The objective of this investigation can now be re-stated as attempting to determine the following quantities : |
| 22 | The Lord Chancellor is on record as wishing to reverse the cuts in eligibility if an opportunity arose . |
| 23 | The Service Business Unit is what was originally Prime 's in-house maintenance operation for its 50-series minicomputer users , which now touts for third party maintenance and support business as well as continuing to support the dwindling PrimOS base . |
| 24 | The 94,000 houses identified as failing to meet the nine-point BTS criteria compares with a higher estimate from the National Audit Office and an estimate of 101,557 by the Scottish Office . |
| 25 | This means that we deprive ourselves of their expertise and the valuable contributions they can make as well as failing to challenge the implications of statements such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's claim , ‘ Children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics — whatever that may be . ’ |
| 26 | This proposal , rejected by Iran as failing to address the issue of troop withdrawals to internationally recognised boundaries , involved ( i ) direct talks between Iran and Iraq in each other 's capitals under UN auspices ; ( ii ) the unconditional release of all sick and wounded prisoners of war ( PoWs ) ; and ( iii ) the opening of the Iran-Iraq borders to allow the resumption of civilian travel , especially to each other 's Islamic shrines . |
| 27 | A few proponents of the change effort saw themselves as having to provide the executive leadership for the change and having to develop a strategy for doing so . |
| 28 | One of the unquestionable advantages of the growing use of computers by humanists is that it has done something to bridge the divide between two cultures — scientific and humanist — which many writers have lamented as threatening to fragment the community of scholars and the republic of learning . |
| 29 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 30 | Together , the Big Five laid the foundations of the distinctive Scottish systems of a small number of large banks with extensive networks , as opposed to say the English pattern of thousands of small banks with nothing more than a local presence . |