Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 wishes to take an exclusive sub-licence of all of 's rights relating to the Licensed Software in the territories set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement ( ‘ the Agreed Territories ’ ) for the purposes set out in this Agreement , which will include the publication of customised disks to meet specific market needs as described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this Agreement ( ‘ the Student Disks ’ ) . |
| 2 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 3 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 4 | Presently available nuclear power comes from the ‘ fissioning ’ , breaking up , of the atomic nuclei of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium and has as byproducts both desirable release of energy and unwanted nasty radioactive contaminants . |
| 5 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 6 | The chapter unfolds as follows . |
| 7 | This sentence structure then develops as set out in Fig 3. 1 . |
| 8 | Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way . |
| 9 | The literary intelligence at work in the best post-war critical journals still looks as arresting , in its moral urgency , as Ruskin 's Modern Painters or the essays of Matthew Arnold or George Eliot . |
| 10 | Based on these figures and assuming sales of five CD-X discs per player , the market looks as follows in terms of unit sale . |
| 11 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 12 | In the meantime , it looks as thought he 's back to borrowing his brothers clothes again . |
| 13 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 14 | What counts as sinning greatly ? |
| 15 | By and large , there is general agreement as to what counts as doing economics or pharmacy . |
| 16 | What counts as giving a reason ? |
| 17 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 18 | If already in hand-to-hand combat then he wo n't move away , but counts as charging again in the next round ( the shaman dashes around with insane vigour much to the astonishment of his foes ) . |
| 19 | Even Storr , someone who , as we have seen , is by no means convinced of a general causal connection between psychosis and creativity , writes as follows about Newton , choosing him as another of his examples of ‘ schizoid ’ genius : |
| 20 | That Molla Fenari was not unaffected by the upheaval caused by Timur is indicated by Asik Celebi who , in the biography of his own father , Sayyid Ali writes as follows : " In the interregnum [ caused by ] Timur Buhari ] Efendi , Molla Fenari and Sayyid Natta " [ Asik Celebi 's great-grandfather ] fell prisoner to Timur 's men ; and though at first they were afflicted with chains and fetters , they were later freed out of respect for the distinction of [ their ] status as seyyids and the distinction of [ their ] learning . " |
| 21 | With higher marginal tax rates the incentive to evade and not declare income increases , so that the discrepancy between actual and recorded income widens as increases . |
| 22 | It is therefore interesting to examine what happens as tends to zero . |
| 23 | In this article I would like to have a look at the nuts and bolts of his style , with the emphasis being shifted to the devices that he uses as opposed to the specific parts that he plays . |
| 24 | What is required is that the language which is pedagogically presented should be a projection of that which actually occurs as recorded by the computer analysis of text . |
| 25 | Another example of an imported good with a widespread distribution is ivory , which normally occurs as rings . |
| 26 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 27 | She estimates that the NVALA has the block support of organisations totalling up to three million people and , in defence of the NVALA 's ‘ mandate ’ , points to the memberships of the British Humanist Society and the National Council for Civil Liberties ( now Liberty ) which she quotes as standing at 2,000 and 6,000 respectively . |
| 28 | Huntington is shrewd when he reveals many implications in Wells 's prose , and ends by making useful distinctions between utopia and dystopia , which he reviews as related , and anti-utopia , which he views as opposed to the other two . |
| 29 | You will actually hold a policy review with your client , I E , you 're going to see them each year at least , but the policy reviews as regards the company are held to make sure there 's enough growth in the client 's funds to sustain all the charges . |
| 30 | The trend towards downsizing — which it describes as moving power down to the desktop level — is already more advanced in Europe than it is in the US , it claims , where the power of large corporations tends to prolong the supremacy of mainframes . |