Example sentences of "[verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 3 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 4 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 5 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 6 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 7 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 8 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 9 | Community Health Councils will remain as the link between authorities and the consumer , and the working papers mention consulting consumers in audit of services . |
| 10 | Although Terminal courses would probably remain as the bulk of provision — ‘ the breadth of the base of the movement amongst ordinary folk ’ — ‘ the Tutorial Class must be the demonstration that real understanding , whatever the purpose , requires sustained effort ; and a significant expansion of activity at this level is the true index of a significant expansion of a genuinely informed public . ’ . |
| 11 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 12 | Alternatively , Exminster could remain as the hospital for elderly mentally ill patients , allowing a planned closure of Digby Hospital after short-stay beds had been established in Torbay and North Devon . |
| 13 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 14 | Thus a certain sales figure may remain as the target but the spending habits of the income group from which the sales were to come may have shifted . |
| 15 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 16 | It is common to include as the purchaser 's responsibility such items as fencing , new roadworks , removal and reconstruction of septic tanks , connection of existing properties to new drains , and construction of garages . |
| 17 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 18 | The tenrecs look very much like the hedgehogs and have a similar defensive armour , with fine spines that can be erected as the animal rolls into a tight ball . |
| 19 | The urban poor , who burn kerosene to cook , for example , suffer as the end users if their government puts a levy on imports of petroleum . |
| 20 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 4 reported that the meeting took place in the city of Chengdu , although other reports cited Nanning as the location . |
| 21 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 22 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 23 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 24 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 25 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 26 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 27 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 28 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 29 | They are cases in which only one type of disposition is involved , but it is then misdescribed as the other . |
| 30 | There is evidence from which it appears that the United Nations Organisation considers that there are persons whom it may treat as the representatives of the Republic of Somalia . |