Example sentences of "as [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Your Memorialists would be glad if the School could be placed in such a position as to enable them to send their children to it with a reasonable expectation that their manners would not be corrupted by the admission of a class of boys more fitted for National Schools than Grammar Schools . |
| 2 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 3 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 4 | Although you see them on film , it 's not the same as seeing them actually there . |
| 5 | Children like to listen to stories as well as read them , and so selected titles from each level are also available on cassette . |
| 6 | The conference adopted a resolution which requested states ‘ to prescribe such methods for the catching of living creatures in the sea , particularly seal and whale , as to spare them as much suffering as possible ’ . |
| 7 | For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them . |
| 8 | One of Assad 's closest confidantes ( and Monzer al-Kassar 's brother-in-law ) , Dubah was the cartel 's principal enforcer , frequently co-opting Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC , the Abu Nidal faction and other Palestinian terrorist groups to do his dirty work as well as using them routinely as part-time agents in his ‘ legitimate ’ intelligence operations . |
| 9 | The information centre alternative can speed up the development of applications and maintenance ( as the users should be able to maintain the systems as well as develop them ) . |
| 10 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 11 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 12 | and erm I 'll be , we knit jumpers as well there , cardigans and as pick them a cardigan I bought from Blacks in Newcastle |
| 13 | Take care with the magnets by the way , as allowing them to snap together causes them to break . |
| 14 | A third way in which the courts have moved from considerations of procedural form to substance , is by interpreting the concept of fairness as allowing them to consider , in a general sense , whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |
| 15 | The experiential approach therefore tries to get pupils in communication with the depths in themselves so that they may have some idea of what that is like for other people , as well as helping them to be more truly " present " in what they are studying . |
| 16 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 17 | In 1974 , visiting the northern region of the Maramureş , one of the districts richest in the everyday survival of peasant customs and dress , Ceauşescu told a group of folk-artists that adhering to traditions was one way of developing a communist country : ‘ I appreciate … these true works of popular art as an expression of your commitment to maintain the dress and customs of [ your ] ancestors , as well as to weave them tightly with that which is new , … because only in this way will we build a strong socialist society . ’ |
| 18 | But then it 's probably beyond your powers to design boots as well as make them . ’ |
| 19 | The individualist interest is served by the assumption that people see the constraints as binding them and act accordingly . |
| 20 | Proponents of voluntary aided status for certain independent denominational schools could argue that the obstruction of their proposals is compounding the difficulties as well as denying them the choice which is available to other groups . |
| 21 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
| 22 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 23 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 24 | The people of Great Britain were governed , however tortuous and artificial the modalities , upon the authority of an elective institution which for historical and other reasons they were content to regard as representing them . |
| 25 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 26 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 27 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 28 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 29 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 30 | The development of interest rate and currency swaps has offered a further fillip to the eurobond market , by increasing borrowers ' flexibility in issuance , as well as enabling them to profit from comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets ( see Hammond , 1987 ) . |