Example sentences of "as [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 6 | They would , moreover , analyse these factors as reflecting the capitalist social organization of production . |
| 7 | The many gaps in the fossil record can be interpreted both ways — as being due to the intrinsic incompleteness of a record based on random serendipitous preservation , or as reflecting the true historical sequence : what you see is all there is . |
| 8 | The timing of the proposals is seen by some observers as reflecting the growing strength of the French Green Party in the run-up to regional elections in March . |
| 9 | Towards the top of the scale the relatively large number of prosperous husbandmen must be taken as reflecting the high overall level of wealth reinforced by the demand of the manufacturing population for food ; at the lower end the paucity of £2 assessments can almost certainly be attributed to the cottage farmers having turned over to weaving and kindred trades . |
| 10 | The engineers plan and supervise the construction of new facilities as well as maintaining the electrical , electronic , mechanical and civil parts of our operation . |
| 11 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 12 | As well as accepting the Dutch theologian 's views on salvation , these English Arminians , or Laudians , exhibited a number of other conservative theological and liturgical positions , which were not to be found in continental Arminianism . |
| 13 | Since Article 36 ( 2 ) rests upon reciprocity it would have been open for the Court to find that there was no reciprocity between Nicaragua and a State that had protested against its listing as accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court . |
| 14 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 15 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 16 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 17 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 18 | ERM critics regard each upset as bringing the eventual collapse of the system closer . |
| 19 | Regular physical activity or exercise is just as important as eating the right type of food . |
| 20 | The Committee for Hereford Amateur Rafters is the organization that was formed following the first 100 mile race and , as such , is the backbone of UK rafting , acting as an administrative body providing information , advice and assistance to new teams as well as organizing the premier UK events . |
| 21 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 22 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 23 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 24 | In place of a ‘ sudden death ’ , once-and-for-all examination , is growing support for assessment which is an integral part of day-to-day teaching and learning , which helps pupils come to understand themselves better , as well as helping the outside world , subsequently , to understand the qualities of that pupil . |
| 25 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 26 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 27 | Some of us are reserved good listeners who see our prime function in conversation as encouraging the other person . |
| 28 | As encouraging the sustainable use of coral reefs for the fishkeeping hobby . |
| 29 | Dedicated to printing anti-semitic material and to disseminating the Protocols and other variants of the conspiracy theory of history , it was formally separated from the parent society in 1932 , and continued as a publishing and distribution business for extreme right-wing groups until the 1970s , producing eighty-five editions of the Protocols as well as becoming the main outlet for circulating American conspiracy theory works and racist material . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , however , as well as becoming the classical place of banishment , Siberia was also fast developing into a haven and a land of freedom and opportunity for the steadily increasing numbers of refugees fleeing from the oppressive social , economic and political policies of St Petersburg . |