Example sentences of "of [noun] as we [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The symptoms of psychosis as we know them today appear in all literatures from the earliest times .
5 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 .
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