Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 2 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 3 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 4 | It looks it looks as if it is . |
| 5 | The loss of the Herald of Free Enterprise led to the collapse of Flexilink 's campaign but the industry has regained confidence since 1987 , partly because of a conviction that the government wants it to survive as a competitive spur to Eurotunnel . |
| 6 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 7 | About a third of the estimated six million Britons living abroad are believed to qualify under a 1989 amendment to the 1985 Representation of the People Act which allows them to register as proxy voters . |
| 8 | A formidable businesswoman , Rebuck says she got as one of the original shareholders of Century , a ‘ substantial amount ’ . |
| 9 | Microtek , a well-known manufacturer of low-cost flatbed scanners , has recently introduced software that allows it to act as an OCR scanner as well . |
| 10 | SVR4.2 , with its integral desktop manager , optimised performance , and modularity that allows it to run as a client in only 4Mb memory , 60Mb disk — highly impressive when compared to its current competitor , OS/2 — ships in July in source code form for OEMs , in its Intel version only , for AT , EISA and MCA buses . |
| 11 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 12 | Tanya Lake has just passed PE2 , first time as with all her exams , but says it came as no surprise to her when her audit partner at Chantrey Vellacott told her that her contract would not be renewed . |
| 13 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 14 | He asked me what rights he had as a father . |
| 15 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 16 | The important technique , which keeps you going as an automaton until interest and desire take over , and concentration sharpens to a fine point , is that of having a rigorous time-table of study laid down in advance . |
| 17 | The backs of the insects were splitting , and new forms emerging from the husks — the adult forms we know as Odonata . |
| 18 | So we can classify the six PH stretches we expect as a 1 and b 2 derived from internally symmetric modes and usually labelled ν s S , and a 1 , a 2 , b , and b 2 derived from internally antisymmetric modes and usually labelled ν a . |
| 19 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 20 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 21 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 22 | You know if he starts throwing up or well you , you think he seems he looks as if he 's in pain or something . |
| 23 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
| 24 | In-house public relations means someone working as a direct employee for the company they serve ; such people , often called a Publicity Manager , face the difficult task of pleasing many masters . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 26 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 27 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 28 | It may be helpful at this stage to sketch some of the details of the structure of Highlander which enables it to function as an effective , independent centre of adult education . |
| 29 | This Devonian is more than a useful one-day cricketer who does his stuff as a medium-pace seamer. he is rated as a sound technical batsman , sure-footed against the spinner and able to get the short-pitched bowling away . |
| 30 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |