Example sentences of "as [verb] something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relative peace has given loggers the security to operate , as well as producing something of a construction boom , creating an internal market for timber products . |
| 2 | The next issue is whether the managers benefit from their position as directors or employees so as to acquire something for less than its full market value . |
| 3 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 4 | He ground his teeth together , lusting to tear the alien apart and eat of its lurid vitals , so as to comprehend something of its strange nature . |
| 5 | Neither of these problems seems insurmountable , and it is the purpose of this book to explain the history of the developing relationship between Marxism and anthropology , in a way which the non-specialist should find accessible , as well as to contribute something to ongoing debates . |
| 6 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |
| 7 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 8 | How , then , can we reconceptualize the idea of rationality within higher education so as to convey something of its traditional promise , while confronting the dual problematic it faces ? |
| 9 | Mr Healey said : ‘ Tout passe ; tout casse ; tout lasse , ’ which I dare to translate as meaning something like ‘ All is Vanity ’ , and then , to end the conversation , he half-sang a little , final , syncopated drumroll , which went something like this : ‘ Da da de da di DUM . ’ |
| 10 | Quick , may be interpreted , in the context of backward , as meaning something like ‘ quick in developing ’ . |
| 11 | In this case quick must be interpreted as meaning something like ‘ quick to understand / react / see the joke ’ . |
| 12 | Syntactic behaviour and contrastiveness aside , it is tempting to interpret a Chinese-style topic in the same way as theme , that is , as meaning something like ‘ This is my starting point ; this is what I am talking about . ’ |
| 13 | In this particular instance , we interpret And waited as meaning something like ‘ we went on waiting and nothing happened ’ or ‘ we waited in vain' . |