Example sentences of "[v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to train your dog to accept grooming as part of its regular routine . |
| 2 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 3 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 4 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 4 reported that the meeting took place in the city of Chengdu , although other reports cited Nanning as the location . |
| 5 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 6 | Schering-Plough managing director Tony Cork said his team was relocating as part of its plans for further growth . |
| 7 | The range of benefits given to new employees relocating as a result of accepting a job offer varies widely according to company policy and individuals ' circumstances . |
| 8 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 9 | Otherwise auditing as a career will become even more unattractive to prospective members than it is already . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State er told me er that the has been no occasion where criticism from a companies auditors by my department 's inspectors in reports published since June nineteen seventy nine has led to an audit partner being excluded from membership of a professional accountancy body , er and no auditor criticised in D T I inspector 's reports has been debarred from auditing as a result of information er in that report . |
| 11 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 12 | I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of . |
| 13 | I can see you are as addicted to knitting as the rest of us , by the fact that you say Murphy 's Law operates every day ! |
| 14 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 15 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 16 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 17 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 18 | The red light on the phone console stopped flashing as whoever sought his attention tired of waiting . |
| 19 | Her body arched like the curve of a gondola 's prow , her eyes flashing as if they were fashioned from steel . |
| 20 | It is not quite so confiding as the white-tufted , but is a charming bird nonetheless . |
| 21 | Another caracara , the crested , also nests on Sea-lion but is nowhere near as tame and confiding as the Johnny rook . |
| 22 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 23 | Concerning a downtrodden girl in a back-street bedroom with an amazing talent for vocal mimicry , it was specially written for her after the playwright ‘ heard me singing as Shirley Bassey , Judy Garland and Cilla Black in the garden ’ . |
| 24 | All the evidence suggests that early involvement in choral singing can awaken an interest which lasts for a lifetime , and church musicians have always seen school singing as a natural preliminary to the distinctive tradition of Anglican music . |
| 25 | Topics investigated will include : social origins of singers ; their training ; the castrati as a group ( far wider than a handful of notorious star singers ) and as a symptom of economic depression ; the shift from reliance on royal or aristocratic patrons to professional independence and cash earnings ; changing contractual arrangements ; and singing as a means to social advancement and to women 's independence . |
| 26 | So had he ever considered singing as a career ? |
| 27 | If " focusing " in this case were to involve levelling as part of new dialect creation , then we might expect /e : / and /o : / to become the new focus , as they are the majority variants , the prestige variants almost everywhere , and arguably simpler in phonological terms than the others . |
| 28 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 29 | Hopefully Wilko is only experimenting as if this is our lineup for the season to put it mildly we 're fucked . |
| 30 | There will also be a daily session introducing franchising as a way to expand an existing business or develop a new venture . |