Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost certainly these were table wines for local use or intended as supplies for ships — not madeira wine as we know it today . |
| 2 | In 1983 , Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision which means that Phoenixes and major revisions will be released as separates between editions . |
| 3 | Sometimes objects are perceived merely as alternatives to words , as signs to be used in pseudo-linguistic formal analysis . |
| 4 | In a small proportion of cells in both species , the sex chromosomes are seen as univalents at Mt , and such cells may occur with much higher frequencies in sterile cases . |
| 5 | Starlings and a wide range of plants from the Mediterranean ( some introduced for ornament , some escaping as weeds from agricultural crops ) have made deep inroads into the native animals and plants of North America . |
| 6 | There are well-kept paths , a trimmed lawn , vegetables , flowers , and fruit , but the flowers and vegetables are grown together in the same beds , the soil is never left bare , and many of the plants she encourages would be condemned as weeds by most gardeners . |
| 7 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 8 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 9 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |
| 10 | Despite all these measures taken by the British , as sitreps on the days after 15 May record , many Croats , both military and civilians , did manage to penetrate the British lines . |
| 11 | It rejects what other conceptions of law accept : that people can have distinctly legal rights as trumps over what would otherwise be the best future properly understood . |
| 12 | During the course of the fieldwork under discussion here , they were used principally as a means of access to user groups and also as foils for cross-checking general data provided by other informants . |
| 13 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 14 | Patrol tasks include keeping a particular lookout for flat-bed lorries , which are used by the IRA as baseplates for their inaccurate and random , but nonetheless effective , homemade mortars . |
| 15 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 16 | ‘ Matter is poured into our universe from some other and entirely extraneous spatial dimension so that to a denizen of our universe they appear as points at which matter is continually created . |
| 17 | There are cases where variant readings of a single lexical form would seem to be more appropriately visualised as points on a continuum — a seamless fabric of meaning with no clear boundaries . |
| 18 | Notice that there will not be quite so many trajectories as points on the top face of B since trajectories will , in general , intersect this plane in a large ( possibly infinite ) number of points . |
| 19 | By reinterpreting these number pairs as points in the plane and connecting them with lines we are drawing a transformation of the original square . |
| 20 | In the latter two cases the probe distances should be interpreted just as dissimilarities since the probes can not be considered as points in comparison with the clones . |
| 21 | In our normal form we will insist that if two expressions are both available as outputs on the same channel , or for assignment to the same variable , then they are different . |
| 22 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 25 | The following passages , taken from well-known or easily obtainable piano music , are suggested as exercises in scoring for string orchestra . |
| 26 | Since , as has throughout been common ground , the defendants were not at liberty to divulge to others information acquired as agents for Mr. Brant , the defendants could not tell the plaintiff the true position without breaching their duty to Mr. Brant . |
| 27 | Suppose , as has in fact happened , that the world demand for ships decreases and shifts to more efficient producers overseas . |
| 28 | Last , but by no means least , the foster parents have to reach decisions , sometimes in crisis conditions , as to whether J. should be returned to hospital as has in fact happened on numerous occasions . |
| 29 | It is at least possible that Parliament when the Acts of 1974 and 1976 were passed did not anticipate that so widespread and crippling use as has in fact occurred would be made of sympathetic withdrawals of labour and of secondary blacking and picketing in support of sectional interests able to exercise ‘ industrial muscle . ’ |
| 30 | That 's going to be hell on earth if you keep dissolving into a mushy heap every time he so much as looks at you . ’ |