Example sentences of "as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had already run and spread in such a way as to lose their identity . |
| 2 | Nor were donors always royalty : the wife of Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud adorned a crucifix at Waltham in Essex with a crown , as well as decking it with other ornaments . |
| 3 | Computerised telephone systems and front of house systems can be installed in any size hotel , and as well as impressing your guests , they will make life easier for you and your staff , as managing director of Interconnect Led , explains . |
| 4 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 5 | Boris Ford , strongly opposed to the binary policy and the new role of the CNAA , described the policy as deriving its impetus from ‘ an oddly outmoded view of universities as remote , anti-professional and unresponsive to social needs ’ . |
| 6 | EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory . |
| 7 | Secondly , the nature of the controls imposed on management so as to assure us that their power can not be used arbitrarily will be analysed and criticized . |
| 8 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 9 | Of course if you smoke cocaine as crack it 's a much more potent way of taking the drug . |
| 10 | The workshops at Kingsmere carry out all maintenance work on the railway as well as building its rolling stock . |
| 11 | Forest House , with its perfect wrought-iron double-decker verandah , its octagonal dairy and pretty pedimented stables and coach-house close by , was commissioned by an undoubted ‘ man of Taste ’ , possibly Sir David Wedderburn , who is recorded as building his house at Chigwell between 1807 and 1810 . |
| 12 | Third , if the patient breathes on his own so as to sustain himself successfully , then the ventilator is not needed and need not be switched on again . |
| 13 | Dwarfs are a touchy , proud race and to suggest to a Dwarf King that he should beg for anything was almost as bad as suggesting he shave off his beard . |
| 14 | So you know I mean if you use it perhaps the way as explained it then it 's a much better way . |
| 15 | It was a dispiriting affair , and since the material was being auctioned on behalf of the gallery 's creditors , there were no reserves and auctioneer Ian Mackenzie was forced to lower as well as raise his bids in order to find buyers for each of 144 lots which raised £97,070 ( $166,300 ) . |
| 16 | They have achieved much of what they sought concerning changes in documents which affect their everyday lives , so as to accommodate their new life-style . |
| 17 | For example , a coastline is a curve whose length ( between any two points ) increases when measured more accurately so as to include its ever-finer convolutions round bays , headlands , cliffs , boulders rocks , pebbles , etc , and on any reasonably simple model the length is infinite . |
| 18 | Although the PTR is the measure on which decisions about resource allocation are often based , it is the size of the class as taught which has greater implications for children 's learning experience . |
| 19 | " Your Memorialists would be glad if the School could be placed in such a position as to enable them to send their children to it with a reasonable expectation that their manners would not be corrupted by the admission of a class of boys more fitted for National Schools than Grammar Schools . |
| 20 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 21 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 22 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 23 | For the duration of the war , British and American diplomats performed a nerve-racking balancing act , providing just enough credit and material aid ( especially grain and petroleum ) to prevent Franco from going over completely to the Axis , but not so much as to enable him to become strong enough to dispense with maintaining relations with them . |
| 24 | If the worst effects of LMS are to be avoided and its potential benefits realised for teachers and their pupils then teachers must ensure that the decision-making process in their school operates in such a way as to enable their full participation . |
| 25 | Our sole object is to find an arrangement which would be so attractive to the majority of Jews as to enable us to strike a bargain for Jewish support . ’ |
| 26 | On our way to the single market , is it not time to give a healthy nudge to the metrication programme so as to enable our manufacturers and exporters to compete more fairly with our continental rivals ? |
| 27 | try to redefine the way that the opposition sees its own position so as to enable it to shift away from that position to your benefit |
| 28 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 29 | In the case of the Single Currency , the weak country is forced into similar deflationary policies in order to try to depress its unit costs so as to enable it to compete against the strong countries . |
| 30 | This Meeting consider this a great hardship , Lint being a staple article of the Island they therefore wish Shawfield may have the Goodness to order matters upon such a footing as to enable his Tenantry to put their manufacture to the best avail . " |