Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [vb base] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cases fall into two categories : those in which the disposition described in the problem is evidently a legacy , yet the petitioners describe it as a trust ; and the opposite case , where the petitioners describe as a legacy what is really a trust . |
| 2 | The building of a hotel and golf course as well as an extra 30 corporate hospitality boxes at Lingfield was the sort of commercial diversification that the Muddles see as a prerequisite to transforming racecourses into the nice little earners they should be . |
| 3 | The fact that the agencies have as their enforcement domain only a small segment of the population , and one almost wholly in fixed locations , means that a polluter is potentially knowable . |
| 4 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 5 | Mossadeq declare that Iran did not need a settlement anyway ; much better that the country proceed as if it had no oil — at least that way it would not be exploited . |
| 6 | Scientists interpreting the greenhouse effect today know that the oceans act as a massive ‘ sink ’ containing fifty times as much carbon as the atmosphere , mostly dissolved in the form of bicarbonate . |
| 7 | There is also some evidence that the halteres act as stimulatory organs , increasing the sensitivity with which the fly reacts to other stimuli during flight ( von Buddenbrock , 1919 ) and in some species removal of the halteres interferes with walking . |
| 8 | Once a star 's real brightness is known , its distance can be worked out , so that the Cepheids act as ‘ standard candles ’ . |
| 9 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 10 | The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as camouflage and help to break up the shape of the animal , concealing its body from the eyes of hungry predators . |
| 11 | One theory suggests that the stripes act as a species recognition device . |
| 12 | A more ingenious theory claims that the stripes operate as a form of visual bonding between members of each herd . |
| 13 | This hampers the small banks that the non-banks use as a conduit for their services . |
| 14 | If the reformists emerge as the largest group , they will sweep the board . |
| 15 | They feel that if the Conservatives emerge as the largest minority party on April 9 and attempt to rule alone , the Liberal Democrats could make Labour ‘ sweat ’ by keeping the Tories going , even though this would mean effectively abandoning their clear commitment to electoral reform above all else . |
| 16 | Conversely , if state-owned companies have been offered for privatization but few bidders have come forward , is this a ‘ failure ’ if the firms continue as loss makers in the public sector ? |
| 17 | If the results serve as a yardstick , it is a game played very effectively by Edinburgh 's lobbyists . |
| 18 | If the men die as a result of the surgery you do n't care . ’ |
| 19 | The particular characteristics of a school — time and timetables , fact and figures , books and writing , tests and class orders — belong to a category of ideas which are separate from those in the village and which both the teacher and the parent accept as school business . |
| 20 | Later a storm breaks over the hotel ; lightning flares above the mountains across the loch , and the windows rattle as the thunder booms . |
| 21 | In Class I compounds , electron transfer between the centers is slow , and the sites behave as if they were effectively independent . |
| 22 | Iosif 's tomb in The Kremlin Wall may be hard to find , but the camps remain as a headstone in perpetuity to his memory . |
| 23 | ( e ) If , as is normal , the regulations merely give the directors power to refuse to register , as opposed to making their passing of transfers a condition precedent to registration , the transferee is entitled to be registered unless the directors resolve as a board to reject . |
| 24 | I have always found the Rottweilers in Norway to be of very stable disposition , and this is probably because the Rottweilers live as family pets , with a stable home life . |
| 25 | The tergopleural muscles are very variable in development and include the axillary muscles ; the pleurosternals are short fibres linking the pleural and sternal apophyses while the pleurocoxals act as abductors of the coxae . |
| 26 | Males sit in groups of three or four , the largest male calling from the centre of the group while the others act as silent satellites . |
| 27 | The switch 's processing power is furnished by four Intel 80960 RISC processors , one of which handles communication with the bus , while the others act as the switching and routing engines . |
| 28 | One is approaching rehabilitation while the others stand as symbols for the future . |