Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional interpretation of the large buildings at the major urban centres as palaces argues for a simple pyramid society , with all the produce and services coming into the king 's administrators ' hands for redistribution . |
| 2 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 3 | The formula of an element or compound which exists as molecules consists of symbols of the element(s) in one molecule and shows the number of atoms of each element in one molecule . |
| 4 | Energy demand is likely to increase by some 90% in the Middle East over the rest of the century as industrialisation continues in the major oil exporters . |
| 5 | A further consequence is , as Bogdanor states in ‘ Britain : the Political Constitution ’ in Bogdanor , Constitutions in Democratic Politics , p. 56 , that ‘ the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ can not in Britain mean contrary to law ; instead it means contrary to convention , contrary to some understanding of what it is appropriate to do . |
| 6 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 7 | This should occur not only at the design stage but also as experience develops in operating the plant and data on actual failures and failure rates become available . |
| 8 | I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … , " . |
| 9 | As Isabella makes towards the waiting Mercedes , one of the Germans shouts : ‘ But we 've come all the way from Hamburg . ’ |
| 10 | Pitched at simulators , signal and radar processing and energy systems , the one- to eight-processor machines are available as field upgrades from other Night Hawks . |
| 11 | As Gassendi insists in his Objections to Descartes , there is no need forever to be distrustful of them . |
| 12 | As payment comes in big lumps when the job is finished , income , Gare noted , tends to be uneven . |
| 13 | This critique of the consequences of science and consumption culture as ideology comes from a method that is ‘ dialectical ’ ; there is a two-sided discourse that through the effect of criticism on consciousness changes over time . |
| 14 | If we assume , as seems reasonable , that the total salary bill declines with the grade in the organization , this implies that ; in turn this means that the average cost approaches as G tends to infinity . |
| 15 | As time passes C t increases to ω and this period of temporary imitation dwindles away as play tends to the full information limit . |
| 16 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 17 | As Germany slides towards reunification , arms control will become even more central to military preoccupations , as the only way of matching armed forces to Europe 's rapidly changing political structure . |
| 18 | As Jim comes into office , with a complete commitment to Christ and to the work and witness of this fellowship , we need to assure him of our love and prayers and support . |
| 19 | If , the elasticity is ; where , the elasticity increases with the number of firms and approaches as n tends to infinity . |
| 20 | Swaggering is obviously best done in the full-length format , but tempered by the ‘ unique British context of compromise , Protestant seriousness and distrust of display ’ , as Wilton says in his eloquent introduction to the catalogue ( Tate Gallery Publications ) . |
| 21 | The Society of Conservative Lawyers , for example , confidently announced in its report on Public Order ( 1970 ) that such things as gang fights between youths were ‘ a distinctively postwar phenomenon ’ . |
| 22 | I find them extremely depressing but I shall go on slogging away until my term as chairman ends in the early summer . ’ |
| 23 | Accordingly the man in our example may prefer to keep an additional fraction of his income as money balances in excess of his transactions demand , just in case something unexpected happens which necessitates immediate expenditure . |
| 24 | Children ‘ die as money goes on debt and arms ’ . |
| 25 | As Pierrefeu says of him , after his appointment to the Supreme Command : |
| 26 | It is quite wrong to posit a pathological process , as Aristotle does with his theory of katharsis , whereby the audience is purged of pity and fear by the solemn events of the play . |
| 27 | Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs . |
| 28 | As recession deepens in the West , Japan continues to glitter like some new El Dorado — despite its own mild economic slowdown . |
| 29 | Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week . |
| 30 | Market-watchers are talking of an approaching crisis , as recession spreads from east to west . |