Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 2 | The sensible interpretation would be to read the phrase ‘ not within the powers of this Act ’ so as to include any of the traditional heads of ultra vires and there is authority for this position . |
| 3 | It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’ |
| 4 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 5 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 6 | Writing as a cultural technique is wholly dependent on forms of specialized training , not only ( as became common in other techniques ) for producers but also , and crucially , for receivers . |
| 7 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 8 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 9 | However , in responding to their situation criminals are seen as becoming distinct from the mainstream , non-criminal population . |
| 10 | The afterlife was imagined as continuing an existence on earth , as becoming one of the imperishable starts , as travelling through the Underworld with Osiris , a realm to which Re brought light and joy at night . |
| 11 | As well as becoming proficient in the techniques of lobbying such as public campaigning and the use of the media , enterprises have frequently formed alliances with private interest groups , and ( as we shall see below ) , with their own workforces , in pursuit of their political goals . |
| 12 | Although it is true , as Charles Muscatine has recently pointed out , that it is inappropriate and impossible to seek to classify fabliaux in toto as representing one of the styles of Latin rhetoric recognized in the medieval schools — humilis , medius or gravis : low , middle or high — fabliau authors can call up such a range of styles for good local effect . |
| 13 | Once distant from the history , it is difficult to envisage just how powerful that central imperative was and how often the options available were so narrowly restricted as to exclude most of what the party was supposed to stand for . |
| 14 | Following the example of the exclusion of the political Cooperation provisions of the Single European Act from the jurisdiction of the European Court , Article L of the Maastricht Treaty similarly defines the provisions of that treaty subject to the jurisdiction of the Court in such a way as to exclude those on Foreign and Security policy and those on Home Affairs and Justice ( with one minor exception ) . |
| 15 | Family planning practice as made possible by an operation such as vasectomy or tubeligation , or the use of physical contraceptives makes the prevention of birth explicit and deliberate . |
| 16 | The relational variety is the most important , and the relations that typically get expressed are those between : ( i ) speaker and referent ( e.g. referent honorifics ) ( ii ) speaker and addressee ( e.g. addressee honorifics ) ( iii ) speaker and bystander ( e.g. bystander or audience honorifics ) ( iv ) speaker and setting ( e.g. formality levels ) We can talk of honorifics just where the relation in ( i ) -(iii) concerns relative rank or respect ; but there are many other qualities of relationship that may be grammaticalized , e.g. kinship relations , totemic relations , clan membership , etc. , as made available by the relevant social system . |
| 17 | Ontological claims as made explicit in existential propositions , I shall maintain , involve certain claims about the world as a whole , and the world is not just a horizon of my " existential projects " ; nor is it a substance , or an aggregate of substances of this or that sort . |
| 18 | Because a particular action achieves a given result , the action is seen as made necessary in order to achieve that result , and a loose typology of the ‘ needs ’ of capital is constructed to demonstrate the functionality of any particular outcome . |
| 19 | China would require trade and economic assistance ; Japanese politicians and capitalists were willing to provide this , as made clear by Yoshida himself . |
| 20 | This concern was linked with Marx 's anthropological work , as made clear in a famous letter to the Russian socialist Vera Zasulich . |
| 21 | As made clear in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) ( above ) this means that a valid legal lease must be for a fixed and certain period of time . |
| 22 | Such profiles are characteristic of shorelines of emergence rather than of shorelines of submergence , a fact which led Johnson ( 1919 ) to class offshore bars as features typical of shorelines of emergence . |
| 23 | As well as addressing some of the major policy issues affecting the sector , N C V O also has an important role in helping voluntary organisations to do their job better . |
| 24 | Regulation and rationing were not adopted reluctantly but as measures essential to the war effort . |
| 25 | In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party . |
| 26 | In Mr Shaw 's view , his Bill , if it had been law , would have prevented the Maxwell fraud and the problems with BCCI , as well as saving billions of pounds lost to the Exchequer every year because of tax haven activity . |
| 27 | He holds up as models some of the new information-age businesses like the American TV company CNN , with a tiny core staff , entrepreneurial approach and day-to-day responsiveness to the market . |
| 28 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 29 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 30 | Last year , attendances slumped as fans tired of a proliferation of championships , chaotic organisation , rocketing ticket prices and punch-ups on the pitch . |