Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keg bitters and lager have been enormously successful for the brewers not as a result of genuine consumer demand but due to saturation advertising . |
| 2 | After dinner , back on the boat , he sat and talked about the soil as the common link between people of all nations , and spoke almost lovingly of husbandry and caring for the soil almost as if it were a human being . |
| 3 | It includes basic information for the newcomer either as a solo performer or as a team flyer . |
| 4 | I will say in moving that , would I note that the property services , the property sub- committee I should say , is receiving a further report on recommendations on how to preserve the long-term viability of the estate , which I consider to be the right priority , erm , the long- term viability of the estate is essential for the value both as an estate and for the value of it er , to us should we need to dispose of any of it for development land in the future . |
| 5 | Practise opening more airbrake during the hold off as a means of getting the glider down fully held off , but without such a long float . |
| 6 | He remembers the onset of class guilt and embarrassment during the war when as a small , spoiled , fat model child , he was taken to school by a governess in the Moravian village where they were evacuated . |
| 7 | If we look at Figure 4.6 , which represents a trip to the supermarket , it suggests that by the time the person leaves home they are already a little anxious about the trip perhaps as a result of their previous difficulties with this task . |
| 8 | Elbing s shipyards were kept going after the war only as a result of massive subsidy from the Reich . |
| 9 | Of the rest , over 500 are listed as road cars , so the thought of the Cobra purely as a racer is something of a myth . |
| 10 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 11 | YOUR event , whatever it is , is of interest to the rest of the Diocese either as a source of information or as an inspiration to others to organise something similar . |
| 12 | The second method tries to analyse the structure of the fossil almost as if it were a piece of engineering . |
| 13 | Rebecque , staying close to his master , gravely inspected one of the cannon almost as if he had never seen such an object before , then , suddenly afflicted by hay fever , he sneezed . |
| 14 | We will ensure that the benefits of fund-holding arrangements are available to any GP who wishes to apply , and we will be ready to extend the scope of the scheme further as it develops . |
| 15 | A London chronicler , writing of events in early 1461 , talks of the northerners almost as if they were foreign enemies : ‘ it was Reported that the Quene w ’ the Northern men wold come downe to the Citie and Robbe and dispoile the Citie , and distroy it vtterly , and all the Sowth Cuntre' ( 22 , p.172 ) . |
| 16 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 17 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 18 | The ‘ ideal ’ label refers to the existence of the types only as ideas or mental constructs , not to their desirability . |
| 19 | I think just about everyone knows the Neon Tetra and it has hit the top of the polls regularly as people 's most favourite fish . |
| 20 | Honey 's work also presents difficulties for the viewer : on the surface it could be seen as a further exploitation of the female either as a child or a woman , but this would not do this work justice . |
| 21 | Sell most of the population off as slaves ? ’ she recalled with a grimace . |
| 22 | Striker Don Goodman is rated as doubtful with a recurring groin injury , and if he has to stand down again Hawke is likely to come in for his first game of the season probably as a partner for ex-England and Boro man Peter Davenport . |
| 23 | Literally thousands of patches of old lazy-beds can be seen throughout the Hebrides today as a clear testimony to land pressure , especially in the 19th century . |
| 24 | The unloaded transfer function is At sufficiently high frequencies to satisfy , falls off as compared with the fall off as for the simple C-R and L-R filters . |
| 25 | " When it was done She expressed Her complete satisfaction with the statue both as a portrait and as a work of art , — I particularly asked the Bishop about that last point . |
| 26 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 27 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 28 | It would , for the first time , draw the outside world into the war not as a neutral peacekeeper but as an enemy of one side . |
| 29 | CURVY Suzanne Younger burst into the spotlight yesterday as a colourful character from the undie world . |
| 30 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |