Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vattimo and Rovatti 1983 , Vattimo 1985 , 1987 ) — are recognized as possessing at least a family resemblance to the more general phenomenon of ‘ postmodernism ’ . |
| 2 | These numbers , he pointed out , could have been considerably increased were it possible to assess the numbers working short-time , as occurred in almost every trade during some part of the year . |
| 3 | When the system appears to be malfunctional , usually at times of economic difficulty for the country , some commentators identify such inherent problems as providing at least a partial explanation for the system 's poor showing . |
| 4 | As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording . |
| 5 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 6 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 7 | We can describe Tyneside ship-building and -repair as reduced to almost a minimum with a cowed work force accepting the logic of management 's competitive position . |
| 8 | The Neue Zürcher Zeitung of Nov. 24 described UNIDO as suffering from both a leadership and identity crisis . |
| 9 | They envisaged the aircraft as having at least the capacity of the Dakota , but the robustness and short take-off and landing ( STOL ) capabilities of their DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter . |
| 10 | In the event one is hard pressed to see how hers is a theology , as opposed to simply a political agenda for the liberation of people . |
| 11 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 12 | Later , much later , after the war , Mr Chatto was installed , and after him John Sandoe came along , in 1957 , and that is when I first really took notice of what was soon to become a ‘ singular bookshop ’ as opposed to just a bookseller . |
| 13 | If the majority of workers could be angry ( as opposed to just the minority being ‘ rebellious ’ ) about the conditions that are inducing a sense of nothingness , and loss of self-esteem , they would have either to face their depression ( i.e. , anger turned inwards ) or face why the social structure is as it is . |
| 14 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 15 | Okay as opposed to just the retinue which means a little slower . |
| 16 | If it wishes to , a company can surrender its entire ACT ( as opposed to merely the surplus amount ) . |
| 17 | In industry as opposed to merely the farming industry the range of facilities offered by the Welsh Development Agency , provided by way of regional selective assistance , makes Wales an attractive place in which to invest . |
| 18 | But this always assumes that departments will want to store information about the processes of document creation , as opposed to merely the results of such processes . |
| 19 | As Bird ( 1984 ) has pointed out , these schools perceived disruptiveness as arising from either the irrational behaviour of pupils or the limited educational expectations of working class pupils or the pupils ' personal problems of adjustment to the school . |
| 20 | As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England . |
| 21 | Much practical work in agriculture is of an empirical type and the ‘ practical ’ farmer is often characterized by an empirical approach as contrasted with perhaps the more theoretically-based approach of his son who has attended agricultural college or university and who understands some of the theory underlying a more scientific approach to agriculture . |