Example sentences of "as [vb -s] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 2 | By reinterpreting these number pairs as points in the plane and connecting them with lines we are drawing a transformation of the original square . |
| 3 | At the earlier hearing Lord McCluskey had asked for a report from a sex-problems clinic after inquiring about pornographic material — 65 magazines and 45 videos — listed as exhibits in the case . |
| 4 | Newborn screening for genetic and other disorders is usually confined to diseases for which there is treatment — either a change of diet ( as in phenylketonuria and galactosaemia ) or replacement therapy ( as in hypothyroidism ) — or in which there is a chance of affecting morbidity or mortality early in life , as occurs in the haemoglobinopathies ( particularly sickle cell disease ) . |
| 5 | In most years the updating of the Long-Term Costing , though always difficult , is a relatively gentlemanly struggle between sensible men , trying to squeeze a pint of requirements into a half-pint financial pot , as happens in the budgetary processes of any large organization or commercial conglomerate . |
| 6 | When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll . |
| 7 | Mitterrand and his left-of-centre ministers ( 1981–6 ) presented the strengthening of private sector radio stations and the emergence of private sector television , as increases in the ‘ spaces of liberty ’ . |
| 8 | All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . |
| 9 | Windows reflect various colours as smudges in the dusk . |
| 10 | Only by using as much knowledge and experience as resides in the whole school can both the broad issues of school management and the minutiae of its efficient operation be appropriately financed . |
| 11 | NEC Corp warns that it expects to plunge to a consolidated loss of $364m for the fiscal year to the end of this month , as slumps in the domestic chip and computer markets turn out even worse than feared . |
| 12 | As applies in the treatment of fungal attack , in the eradication of insect pests it is necessary to identify the unhealthy conditions which have invited the attack , and to cure them at source . |
| 13 | In February 1990 , a MAFF study discovered that children and pregnant women were receiving more lead than had been thought , and recommended a level of 10 ug/litre , as applies in the USA . |
| 14 | There is not , however , among those he quotes the same unambiguous acceptance of the private ownership of the means of production as appears in the pronouncements by the continental Socialist parties . |
| 15 | This type of derivative is known as the divergence of ; the derivative is taken with respect to the same space–time component as appears in the tensor ( here α ) , and the sum over the expression on the left-hand side is made for all values of α . |
| 16 | Solicitors regularly appear as advocates in the lower courts and , by special hat of the Lord Chancellor , in some Crown Courts which are geographically remote from barristers ' chambers . |
| 17 | As cogs in the Soviet military machine , the three countries ' armies used to sit mainly near their western borders . |
| 18 | In the light of all the considerations set out above I propose that the court should rule as follows in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 19 | But in order for means to be classified as means in the first place they have to be something that we can utilize . |
| 20 | A great dark arch appeared , and then they passed into shadow with the sounds of water glooping as echoes in the high tunnel and the light playing along the sides like silk in the wind . |
| 21 | We considered subjects positive for HIV as controls in the comparison of pneumonia because the incidence of pneumonia among drug users positive for HIV was shown to be significantly higher compared to drug users negative for HIV . |
| 22 | he 's er cut up , as soon as comes in the morning he likes a piece of toast . |