Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she began to treat the shop more as a business than a hobby , and expanded its services by offering home collection to rich women who would not be seen dead in a secondhand shop . |
| 2 | In the first vote of the day , they ensured that Central Committee members and regional party secretaries not elected as delegates were allowed to attend the congress only as observers . |
| 3 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 4 | In many cases deceiving appearances contrast with and help to define the change more as in the case of the loathsome , lonely , hardened criminal Magwitch . |
| 5 | It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations . |
| 6 | On March 7 a faction split away from Slovakia 's ruling Christian Democratic Movement ( CDM ) , deciding to contest the election separately as the Slovak Christian Democratic Movement ( SCDM ) . |
| 7 | The program has tools for symmetrical drawing , dimension lines with changing measurements , master objects and clones for quick-editing , animation , and ‘ connectigons ’ for maintaining links in the drawing of a complex shape ( like a spiral staircase , for example ) which allow you to edit the shape easily as a whole . |
| 8 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 9 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 10 | So out of yesterday it was how to put the structure together as the delivery of how it came across and what the audience 's reaction was to it . |
| 11 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 12 | Once you have the motherboard in place and wired it up then you have to commission the machine just as if it was new . |
| 13 | He seemed to regard the exchange purely as a joke , but Marise continued to glower beneath her perfectly drawn black brows , and Faye too looked irritated by Greg 's words . |
| 14 | This obvious fact is not always exploited there is a tendency to regard the keyboard simply as a typewriter whereas any key can be chosen to have any function . |
| 15 | This is prevented by LIFESPAN since a DC must reference at least one module to be meaningful ( since it makes no sense to have a DC otherwise as a DC 's sole purpose is to allow modules to be updated ) . |
| 16 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 17 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | A fourth option — only to be used as a desperate measure — is to take a loan usually as a second charge on the family home . |
| 19 | The problem with mercury was that the curative dose was much too close to the lethal dose , and it was easy to make the patient worse as a result of treatment . |
| 20 | Together with his court architect , Albert Speer , the Führer had devised ‘ ruin-theory ’ which demanded that the great Nazi buildings should be designed to impress the observer even as ruins after thousands of years . |