Example sentences of "as [noun] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As fur resources dwindled and as Russian settlers moved ever onward , the pressures on Teleut traditional hunting grounds grew . |
| 2 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 3 | We plan to place the order for the fourth Trident submarine with VSEL at Barrow as soon as contract negotiations have been satisfactorily completed . |
| 4 | Secondly , when governments spend in excess of taxation receipts the budget deficit incurred will be reduced as income levels rise and taxation receipts subsequently increase . |
| 5 | As computer systems became more reliable and easier for customers to set up and configure for themselves , the traditional final assembly and test operation became redundant . |
| 6 | As computer systems become more powerful , less stress needs to be paid to problems of implementation ( availability of storage , for example ) and more to problems independent of implementation . |
| 7 | THE AWARDS SHOW THEIR WORTH AS COMPUTER COMPANIES COME UP TRUMPS IN THIS YEAR 's LIST |
| 8 | The technique seems to offer a form of logical immortality as computer languages used for the simulations become increasingly machine-independent . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , just as computer scientists have had to solve the problem of mapping abstract functional languages onto unyielding and unhelpful hardware , so also will the EP community have to grapple with the difficulties of ‘ link-editing ’ and presenting suitable subsets of some highly abstract hypertext on conventional devices ( including plain paper ! ) . |
| 10 | SHARE prices and the pound rose during the night as election results showed a better-than-expected performance by the Conservatives . |
| 11 | As far as teeth flags go , though , it was up there with the best of ‘ em . |
| 12 | After the First World War Letters of Credit became commonplace as payment instruments to facilitate international trade . |
| 13 | As GRAMOPHONE readers know , CD prices are substantially lower in America than in the UK , and while we rarely complain about this it does raise the number of units which must be sold to reach the break-even point on a particular recording : this in turn discourages risk-taking on limited appeal issues . |
| 14 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 15 | This , as Economist journalists discovered , proved to be a highly unorthodox meeting , as two outsiders , neither of whom were bound by the Privy Counsellor 's oath of confidentiality , were in attendance : ‘ Chaired by Mrs Thatcher , [ the meeting ] was attended , unusually , for part of the time , by two outsiders : Sir John Cuckney , Westland 's chairman … and Mr Marcus Agius , a director of Lazard 's , Westland 's financial advisers . ’ |
| 16 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 17 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 18 | The return will be variable , as building societies change the rates paid to investors . |
| 19 | However , as building societies enter the area of unsecured lending , they may find that the banks have the advantage of greater expertise . |
| 20 | This means that your monthly payments are the same for 12 months at a time , unlike the standard variable rate , which goes up and down as base rates change . |
| 21 | Disaster à la carte as shrimp farms grow |
| 22 | Investment since 1979 also seems to have been influenced by historic designation as census tracts containing such areas saw more rehabilitation activity . |
| 23 | If you throw a dead bird into the air it will describe a graceful parabola , exactly as physics books say it should , then come to rest on the ground and stay there . |
| 24 | The hosts of God were no longer as hostile troops , but as guardian angels protecting God 's obedient servants . |
| 25 | As university teachers suggest a code of conduct , Dea Birkett recalls a personal encounter with a lecherous lecturer |
| 26 | PROFITS DIP AS RECESSION HITS DEMAND |
| 27 | The custom of giving jewels to people as Easter presents continues today . |
| 28 | ‘ No planned programmes — staff attendance on courses decided as course details received ’ . |
| 29 | And as crime figures soar , Labour has for months poured scorn on the Tory claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 30 | It is happening with many other crimes , as crime figures spiral out of control . |