Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This manuscript , which was clearly intended for publication , reflects his personal observation as well as drawing on the published literature on the disease . |
| 2 | In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education . |
| 3 | This would seem very close to the ‘ bow-wow ’ theory of linguistic evolution , one of the theories much discussed in Eliot 's youth , which saw language as deriving from the imitation of natural sounds . |
| 4 | The problems discussed in this section are not necessarily separate from those outlined as deriving from the colonial model , indeed they frequently overlap . |
| 5 | But to see communicative significance as deriving from the phylogenetically arbitrary status of apine dance , as a solution to their co-ordination problem , is open to a serious objection . |
| 6 | Thus Skocpol sees the state 's autonomy as deriving from the specific political functions that it performs . |
| 7 | This was difficult to understand for impassioned artists who saw Surrealism and Abstraction as struggling for the soul of modern art . |
| 8 | This is a waste of money as well as annoying to the media concerned . |
| 9 | Moreover , Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers . |
| 10 | Criticism connected to choices we have made — about restaurants , films , books to read — may be interpreted as reflecting on the person who made the choice or suggestion , though this may not be the critic 's intention . |
| 11 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 12 | Locate in Scotland , the agency charged with luring foreign multinationals to set up in Scotland , is generally seen as competing with the Welsh Development Agency and the Irish Development Authority to secure these coveted new tenants . |
| 13 | It is viewed by some as having a prime role as a respite for carers , others additionally see their role as assisting in the more practical needs such as baths , chiropody , medication etc . |
| 14 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 15 | He was an official of the church himself , as well as singing in the choir . |
| 16 | But the jurist allows it to be treated as inhering in the legacy , charged on the sum of money which has now come to Maevius . |
| 17 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 18 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 19 | As well as allowing for the " artist 's licence " we need to remember that artists often had to satisfy patrons , or produce work that would sell . |
| 20 | This obviously saves much time and effort as well as allowing for the creation of more imaginatively produced work . |
| 21 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 22 | Walsingham and Knighton also attempted to blame Wyclif and the Lollards for propagating revolt , but this must be seen only as scaremongering by the established order in the Church , attempting to tar the socially conservative academic heretic with the brush of revolution . |
| 23 | In December 1990 Bob Haboldt gave his rationale behind choosing a large gallery as stemming from the different approach of Continental buyers , who like to stroll in and look , as opposed to clients who tend to make an appointment to visit his New York gallery in order to see a specific work . |
| 24 | The two largest parties in Britain , the Conservative and Labour parties , view Britain 's problems as stemming from the pursuit in the past of inadequate policies ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 25 | He assumed that all animal bones would be broken by similar stresses , so he took into account the ‘ peak forces ’ as approximating to the body weight . |
| 26 | The regulationist school can , therefore , give a cogent account of the international economy in periods of structural change ; and its concept of the international economy as consisting of the relations between coherent national economies with one dominant over the others appears credible . |
| 27 | This network defines acceptable noun phrases as consisting of the categories determiner , optional adjective string , noun and optional prepositional phrases . |
| 28 | Bhaskar has defined " the ontological structure of human activity or praxis … as consisting in the transformation by efficient ( intentional ) agency of pre-given material ( natural and social ) causes " . |
| 29 | The appointment of senior teachers and the setting up of health education committees were mentioned by several schools as helping in the management of health education . |
| 30 | Scotland coach Douglas Morgan accepted : ‘ It 's a bit of a blow but the sooner Iain goes home the better , as depending on the results of the probe , he could still be available for the World Cup sevens at Murrayfield . ’ |