Example sentences of "as [verb] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi would reject the eudaemonistic consequentialism of utilitarianism as limited in its objective and lacking in humanity . |
| 2 | THE Northern Health and Social Services Board is delighted to see the Royal Victoria Hospital introducing new medical techniques as highlighted in your article ‘ Treatment Service Boost for the Royal Victoria ’ ( September 3 ) . |
| 3 | According to the Aristotelians , the nature of a thing is , specifically , its ‘ substantial form ’ as explained in their hylemorphic theory . |
| 4 | The reason why is summarised in my own ‘ Principle of inverse irreversibility ’ , a sub-paradigm of my ‘ Law of innate tendencies ’ , itself one of the laws that go to make up the all-encompassing ‘ Law of irrelevant correlates ’ , as explained in my work-in-progress , ‘ Irrelevant correlates ( and others ) ’ , which promises to be hailed on publication as the definitive analysis of systematised muddleheadedness . |
| 5 | The growing trend to adopt the Graves approach , as explained in his book Writing : Teachers and Children at Work ( Heinemann 1983 ) is particularly helpful for those children who find writing difficult . |
| 6 | Reviewing the disc in your April issue ( page 93 ) , Joan Chissell points out that the double minor form does not correspond with the text as given in her Lea Pocket Score . |
| 7 | Darwin 's mid-September 1838 theorizing , as developed in his Notebook D , provided the immediate context for his most celebrated innovation of all : the theory of natural selection . |
| 8 | The skill of the lawyer existed in ensuring that the relationship between the statements in his legal discourse was such that it would lead to a legal outcome which would translate back directly into the outcome chosen by the client as formulated in his or her own , non-legal discourse . |
| 9 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 10 | ‘ Theodora , ’ said Julia bravely , ‘ is breathing it out in Dhani 's system the same as praying in yours ? ’ |
| 11 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 12 | Nonetheless the parties may stand or fall by the evidence as disclosed in their witness statements , although a witness will always be free to give evidence in relation to new matters which have arisen since the statement was served on the other party . |
| 13 | It 's not the same as dying in your own bed , is it ? ’ |
| 14 | Sir : While tending to agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury 's social critique as reported in your paper ( 'Runcie attack on ‘ Pharisees ’ revives rift with Tories ' , 2 October ) , I find his reference to the Pharisees more than a little unfortunate . |
| 15 | It is common knowledge that these include Ceredigion , Ynys Mon , Dinefwr and Monmouth ( not Montgomeryshire , as reported in your paper ) , although many other councils also show symptoms of the disease . |
| 16 | Now Father had gone , and here was Nuria , with a strong physical presence , as challenging in her way as her father . |
| 17 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 18 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |
| 19 | Geoffrey Plantagenet , Count of Anjou , as depicted in his tomb effigy . |
| 20 | To say that one does not believe in telepathy , or in ghosts , or in God is as much an act of faith as believing in them . |
| 21 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 22 | They have no great regard for Pakistan 's military prowess as exhibited in its three wars with India . |
| 23 | Sir : Desiring to show you our kind feeling and the admiration we have for your bravery and humanity , as exhibited in your recent conflict with the forces of the United States . |
| 24 | I am advised that Dyfed is likely to reject the application and maintain its view of the extent of the IDO as presented in its High Court case . |
| 25 | Here is the metrical model of " Diffugere nives " , as presented in its first two lines : In J.B. Leishman 's translation ( Leishman 1956 ) this opening couplet is rendered as follows : The strophe continues : Leishman 's skill in adapting the metre is much to be commended ; there is great ingenuity , particularly in the adaptation of the English ing-forms ( " transforming " , " diminishing " , " hurrying " ) to the dactylic Graeco-Latin rhythms . |
| 26 | The 1897 President of the Baptist Union declared that Baptists were ‘ no longer treated as social pariahs , to be trampled under foot of men ’ as seen in their new ‘ sanctuaries in main thoroughfares ’ of which many were ‘ beautiful and costly ’ . |
| 27 | The transfer of David O'Leary was a disaster as seen in him missing injured since the third game and has yet to return to full fitness . |
| 28 | And assertive — as seen in our electronic banking technology . |
| 29 | It is also fairly easy to construct one from plastic waste piping as featured in my article PFK May 1991 . |
| 30 | THE Chancellor , Norman Lamont , yesterday ruled out exempting needy people from VAT on domestic fuels as imposed in his Budget . |