Example sentences of "of [noun] as we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lesser varieties are not widely planted , nor do they contribute significantly to the quality and reputation of Champagne as we know it today , but they exist and do possess a certain curiosity value and are therefore dealt with in this chapter . . |
| 2 | Photovideo : An Exploration , 12 photographers and video makers from Britain and abroad investigate new electronic technology and ask if this is the end of photography as we know it , or merely the next chapter ? ( until 29 Feb ) . |
| 3 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 4 | Commitment offering oneself to the lord in the service of the church and the world is the third and quite prominent element in the service of confirmation as we have it , and as we say in a day when emphasis is being laid on the ministry of the whole people of God there is surely value in a definite act of commitment on a definite day . |
| 5 | However , there seems to be very strong reason indeed to think that there can not be an acceptable account of effects as we conceive them which does not include necessitation . |
| 6 | But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees . |
| 7 | The founder of aromatherapy as we know it was René Gattefossé , a French chemist who worked in his family 's perfumery business in the 1920s . |
| 8 | They suggest what I shall argue : that integrity rather than some superstition of elegance is the life of law as we know it . |
| 9 | ‘ The science of chemistry as we know it today is in the throes of revolution . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp is trying to bring Windows and DOS together in ‘ Chicago , ’ the code name of the project that could spell the end of MS-DOS as we know it . |
| 11 | These beautiful and delicate flowers , often heavily scented , include the complete range of colour as we know it , hence the name , which is the Greek word for rainbow , and from which the word " orris " is directly derived . |
| 12 | Among the more important qualities of water as we receive it from our supply sources are its pH and its hardness . |
| 13 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 14 | Subsequently , Step 3 , " Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him " is more demanding of one 's resources of humility ( as indeed are all the Steps ) but it is really a logical progression from Steps I and 2 . |
| 15 | The symptoms of psychosis as we know them today appear in all literatures from the earliest times . |
| 16 | It is a thousand pities that the writ of praemunire which Henry VIII used against Wolsey etc. was no longer available to prevent them ; for despite the fair-seeming terminology of Human Rights , the result is incompatible with the elementary principles of justice and of democracy as we understand them . |
| 17 | It 's the end of life as we know it . |
| 18 | HOO HAH BOYS : A strange tribe of people from the south of Ireland who have no interest in the concept of life as we know it but instead tend to live out their winters bushing it ( See : BUSHING ) behind the Carlini factory and spend their summers drinking their way across Europe . |
| 19 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |
| 20 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 21 | The heart of Europe as we mean it , is not John Major 's heart of Europe . |
| 22 | But while we might note that international politics is conducted almost entirely by men , we are not usually aware of gender as we analyse it . |
| 23 | But as the social role of technology changes , so must the genre whose task has traditionally been to keep one step ahead of science as we know it . |
| 24 | But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information . |
| 25 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 26 | On the other side , the fraught quality is greatly heightened and increased by the feeling I 've already described that the Treasury 's figures are there and absolute and that to transgress beyond them will be the end of civilization as we know it , and interest rates will go sky high and hyperinflation will return . |
| 27 | In the 1960s the fact of more than one million unemployed would have been heralded as foreboding ‘ the end of civilization as we know it ’ . |
| 28 | It is appropriate , too , that an attractive modern building here houses the country 's Federal Archives containing among other items the solemn pact of 1291 , the signing of which by representatives of Schwyz , Uri and Unterwllden was the decisive step in the evolution of Switzerland as we know it . |
| 29 | I wondered if we were both thinking of Charlie as we did it . |