Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest in order to get used to the set-up and to check that the wording sounds as good when spoken as it looks on the page .
2 For ma , accepting the fact that it will rain today seems as difficult as coming to terms with the amputation of a limb .
3 But in successive writings Hare has gradually worked around to seeing the account of the very meaning of ethical language which he regards as correct as offering a kind of proof of utilitarianism .
4 Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze .
5 The main aim of all the above would be to ensure that using a microcomputer as a tool becomes as natural as using a telephone or a typewriter .
6 So the regulatory tactic should be to ban the risks consensus defines as unacceptable and to impose ( if necessary ) a duty to limit other risks as far as money allows .
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