Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 2 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 3 | As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond . |
| 4 | But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled . |
| 5 | Just as you care for dry skin on the face , the scalp needs a soothing touch … gentle cleansing and moisturising . |
| 6 | She does this in almost literal fashion as she watches for repeated mannerisms typical of that animal . |
| 7 | On this occasion we thought it so important that we invited the bishop to lay hands on the team as they were sent out and began to meet on Sunday mornings , initially in a large sitting room as we searched for suitable premises . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're also recognising the strength of local teams as we drive for increased market share in the individual countries of the new Europe . |
| 9 | £60m paid off as we save for rainy day |
| 10 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 11 | Both men lapsed into silence as they searched for familiar faces amongst the last of the crowd trickling into the stadium . |
| 12 | The significance of this comparative quiet will not be lost on party leaders as they prepare for provincial elections in the next 18 months . |
| 13 | Hoarse cries busied the air , and Riven heard the gulls screaming as they fought for odd fish on the quay and whirled round the masts of the ships , speckling the docks with guano . |
| 14 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |
| 15 | The Ruiari Og outfit swamped Loughguile in he semi-final — a win that bolstered confidence in their camp as they bid for back-to-back honours . |
| 16 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 17 | For others , such as Miró and Calder , the boundary between painting and sculpture is continually displaced as they search for new ways of combining the two , with the emphasis on space , in the case of Giacometti , or real movement of forms . |
| 18 | The heaters that can kill — warning to elderly as they search for cheap fuel |
| 19 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 20 | The portability of a VSAM file from one device to another , and from operation under one OS/VS system to another , or from DOS/VS to OS/VS is helpful , as it allows for rapid conversion when different disks are installed . |
| 21 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 22 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 23 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 24 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 25 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 26 | The golden age may be pre-Revolutionary , or it may fail to occur altogether , as it fails for plain Natasha in ‘ The Moon Came Out ’ . |
| 27 | The Charter , backed by David Hatch , managing editor of Radio 1 , is considered a defensive move by the BBC as it prepares for difficult negotiations with the government over the issue of privatisation of the national network . |
| 28 | The Pope visited six Angolan cities in this predominantly Catholic country , and was welcomed by large crowds as he called for national reconciliation , 13 months after the ending of 16 years of war between UNITA and dos Santos 's formerly Marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) . |