Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma-Hoo is depicted as riding on a water-buffalo and parading past lines of men to pass judgement upon them , reflecting their sentence back to them by means of a giant bronze mirror on his breast . |
| 2 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 3 | The third rectangle is initially visualized as superimposed on the second . |
| 4 | The moves were immediately attacked as reneging on election promises by John Major not to raise VAT . |
| 5 | Finally , such an all-embracing solution could be presented as based on national , rather than personal , interests , for it appeared to represent everyone , not just certain social or economic sectors . |
| 6 | If , as seems likely , this line swings southwestwards at its western end towards the Farmborough Compression Zone , it may account for the otherwise puzzling discrepancy between the E.N.E.-W.S.W. strike of the basement thrust as seen on seismic ( Chadwick et a/. 1983 ) and the E.-W. trend of the Vale of Pewsey . |
| 7 | From the end of the lane , a circular walk may be made as suggested on the map , starting along the path to Selside but turning off after a mile to aim due north for the far end of the Allotment wall . |
| 8 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 9 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 10 | Development of the social services was seen as concentrating on improving the Big Four — unemployment insurance , workmen 's compensation , health insurance and old-age pensions — which provided against the ‘ interruption of earnings ’ which caused five-sixths of the want in Britain before the war . |
| 11 | This further implies that the product life-cycle should be seen as shown on the revised McKinsey-GE grid of figure 4.4 , rather than as running diagonally across the matrix from top left to bottom right , as figure 4.3 implies . |
| 12 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |
| 13 | However , after emergency meetings between President F. W. de Klerk and Mandela on July 26 and Aug. 1 , the issue appeared to have been resolved , and the two delegations , the ANC 's including Slovo , met as scheduled on Aug. 6 [ see p. 37642 ] . |
| 14 | Deciding where a stitch pattern will be placed on a garment is just as important for successful knitwear designing as deciding on the shape and colours to be used . |
| 15 | As Table 6.1 below shows , the proportion of temporary hotel and catering staff who can be described as working on that basis " involuntarily " is lower , and the proportion who can be classified as working on that basis " voluntarily " is higher than for the generality of the temporary labour force . |
| 16 | Chemically , they differ considerably from morphine , but they can usually be seen to correspond to part of the morphine molecule , and are thus envisaged as acting on the same receptors . |
| 17 | Criticism connected to choices we have made — about restaurants , films , books to read — may be interpreted as reflecting on the person who made the choice or suggestion , though this may not be the critic 's intention . |
| 18 | Here we seem to be implicitly relying on a further assumption , namely an assumption of topical coherence : if a second utterance can be interpreted as following on a first utterance , in the sense that they can be " heard " as being concerned with the same topic , then such an interpretation of the second utterance is warranted unless there are overt indications to the contrary ( again , see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |
| 19 | Prices vary as follows on the items shown — Elkhorn Coral £19.99 ; Lettuce Coral £18.20 ; Flower Coral £31.99 ; Cup Coral large £9.25 ; Cup Coral small £5.60 ; and Blue Tube Sponge £13.36 ( which make up one of the special deals ) and a giant Elkhorn Coral which retails at £41.50 . |
| 20 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 21 | Cheques drawn but not yet presented for payment £131.00 ; standing orders shown as paid on the bank statement but not entered in cash book £82.00 ; cheques entered in cash book but not yet paid into the bank £64.00 . |
| 22 | Yes , the exercise will be proceeding as planned on a fully corporate basis , consistent with the continued aim of introducing a single status pay and staffing framework . |
| 23 | It dries surprisingly quickly , and providing it 's laundered as directed on the label it 's relatively crease resistant . |
| 24 | When the summit began as planned on March 10 , King Hassan protested in an open letter to the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi . |
| 25 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |
| 26 | Insect wings do originate as flaps on the back and they do , initially , have blood flowing in their veins , so such a theory seems very plausible . |
| 27 | This causes any submitted DCs referencing the package or its contents to be automatically assessed as agreed on the package managers behalf . |
| 28 | The first thing to realize ( in Kant 's opinion ) about moral action is that it is action done out of respect for duty as such , that is for a system of categorical imperatives recognised as binding on every rational agent whatever his desires and feelings happen to be . |
| 29 | Raw data such as plant locations , weather data and population distribution can be displayed as overlays on a basic land-use map . |
| 30 | Compare these with your Contents Sum Insured as shown on your renewal notice : |