Example sentences of "they [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 2 | Some players find Goblins hard to use because they imagine they are fighters and commit them to combat as if they were Orcs . |
| 3 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 4 | We 'd like to see them remain as houses . |
| 5 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 6 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 7 | The popular press had laid the blame for the evolution of the larger lout squarely at their feet ; pushing nablabs would allow them to appear as capitalists with a social conscience . |
| 8 | If fragments of suitably flawed crystal later broke away , we could imagine them acting as ‘ seeds ’ for new crystals , each one ‘ inheriting ’ its ‘ parent 's ’ pattern of flaws . |
| 9 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 10 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 11 | If parents were faced with this list which one would you advise them to choose as a priority ? |
| 12 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 13 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 14 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 15 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 16 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 17 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 18 | She then asks what kind of day each has had , telling them to answer as if they were the other . |
| 19 | When we go into schools where computers are actually in use , we find them serving as expensive page turners , mimicking programmed instruction texts . |
| 20 | Saw them clear as daylight . |
| 21 | Was this the arrogance already — keeping them waiting as beings of little importance ? |
| 22 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 23 | Of Edward 's six seneschals during his first twenty-two years as king , however , five were Englishmen and none of them acted as Grilly had done , amassing a patrimony for themselves and their heirs in the duchy . |
| 24 | Yeah , you sometimes get them some of them look as if there 's , I du n no vinta vintage Newcastle Brown you know cobwebs and dust on them int there and spiders ' webs on them . |
| 25 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 26 | It is the responsibility of the leadership and the management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment . |
| 27 | Closely akin to leaseholds , and like them classed as personal interests in land , are tenancies at will and at sufferance . |
| 28 | Now the 27 year-old sculptor specialises In beautifully complex human and animal forms , steeped in classical influences and burnished or weathered to make them look as if they have several lifetimes of history behind them . |
| 29 | The spirit which these people brought with them survives as the backbone of America today . |
| 30 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |