Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 2 | I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want to sound as if I 'm going to break into a chorus of ‘ Tears Of A Clown ’ , but I 'm depressed like anyone else is depressed . |
| 4 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 5 | ( c ) On what chart does the rhumb line appear as a straight line ? |
| 6 | At the very least , political action by a military organization will include acting as a pressure group within the policy-making process on questions of weapons procurement ; at the other end of the spectrum there is full-scale military intervention as manifested in a coup d'état , in which the military , or a part of it , overthrows the government and assumes governing power itself . |
| 7 | ‘ That it is a sort of material women might buy to serve as piping on their dresses , gowns or cloaks . |
| 8 | Now doctors can simply include smoking as a cause of death on certificates . |
| 9 | Almost one-quarter of primary schools did not include smoking as a health education topic with children at P6/P7 . |
| 10 | In a workshop session which the BA might consider restaging as a full day seminar , Peter Mouncey of the AA , Leslie Henry of Book Marketing Ltd and Sue Morris of W H Smith tackled ‘ Targeting the book market — the role of research ’ from three different though complementary angles . |
| 11 | Chamberlain , Baldwin suggested , might consider joining as a minister without portfolio . |
| 12 | The court must consider appointing as guardian anyone who has previously acted in this capacity for the child but is not obliged to re-appoint . |
| 13 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 14 | One of the problems for those entrepreneurs , and other corporate managers , who do seek to act as professional industrialists is that the context in which they operate is dominated by the values described in earlier chapters . |
| 15 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 16 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 17 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 18 | Now we have the strange state of affairs by which half the ball may be vandalised — spinners should undoubtedly regard ball-shining as vandalism — but not the other . |
| 19 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |
| 20 | Such an attitude is , of course , typical of the ‘ oral personality ’ , as classically defined in the annals of psychoanalysis , and I think it is no coincidence that anorexics , who are almost invariably subject to heavily competitive pressures , should choose eating as the focal point for expressing the resulting conflicts . |
| 21 | But they do not feel treated as partners . |
| 22 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 23 | Suppliers are asked to identify all payments that OUP will be expected to make , and all revenues which OUP may expect to receive as a result of entering the proposed relationship . |
| 24 | For aching joints you ca n't beat swimming as an exercise . |
| 25 | She will feel accepted as a member of the ward team and will be more ready to learn . |
| 26 | You can choose to play as one of two characters , Emily or Edward . |
| 27 | The willingness of all staff to co-operate and contribute serves as a useful counterpoint to the divisive and negative views which are commonly expressed elsewhere . |
| 28 | They are then used to support recommendations concerning the organization of society and personal conduct resting on straight matters of fact , or at least the best available opinion on matters of fact , of the one kind around which clear minded people can expect to rally as a basis for human cooperation . |
| 29 | The lesson was offered in the particular terms of the four years , from sixteen to twenty-one , which a youth would expect to spend as an apprentice working towards officer status ; it was to be interpreted by each of the readers according to his own aim in life . |
| 30 | Similarly , the event that we might choose to label as ‘ the beginning of the universe in imaginary time ’ would be an ordinary point of space-time , much like any other . |