Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb -s] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we assume , as seems reasonable , that the total salary bill declines with the grade in the organization , this implies that ; in turn this means that the average cost approaches as G tends to infinity . |
| 2 | If , the elasticity is ; where , the elasticity increases with the number of firms and approaches as n tends to infinity . |
| 3 | The roar of the SuperMark becomes louder by the hour as freedom translates to trading and economic opportunities to the Western economy plumb in the centre of the new Central Europe . |
| 4 | He came up with a sugar called 2-deoxygalactose ( 2-Dgal , which bears the same relationship to the sugar galactose as 2-DG does to glucose ) . |
| 5 | There 's also a more formal and more advanced reporting procedure , based on the DataEase Query Language ( DQL ) , as near as DataEase gets to programming . |
| 6 | In the sense that apple has the same relationship to fruit as dog has to animal ( i.e.' — is an immediate taxonym of — ' — see chapter 6 for the meaning of taxonym ) , that relation is of the sort known as ‘ many-to-one ’ . |
| 7 | Inserting equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) for I and V into equation ( 9.75 ) establishes that Hence where from equation ( 9.77 ) For a transmission line of infinite length , and are zero in equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) respectively because it is physically impossible for I or V to be infinite as x goes to infinity . |
| 8 | As Nick sets to work his wife Jate ( Niamh Cusack ) discovers that someone has committed a far more serious offence — but the witness wo n't talk . |
| 9 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 10 | As ACCOUNTANCY goes to press , Charterail is making a last ditch attempt to find more funding and reopen negotiations with BR . |