Example sentences of "as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He went to the kitchen and asked if the nurse would be so kind as to wait , just a few moments , and he was out of the room before she could tell him how tight her schedule was .
2 Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him .
3 Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia .
4 And when the programme as exposed by the discoverer is seen to have been falsified by history , what in Marx was bravery becomes in latter-day Marxism mere bravado .
5 For example , in his appraisal of the eighteenth century he uses ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ Newtonian ’ as predicates to create the impression of an hypostasised activity which stood separate from art and other aspects of Western culture , including philosophy .
6 If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence .
7 Some of them had already run and spread in such a way as to lose their identity .
8 Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land .
9 But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes .
10 Camcorder viewfinders are , in effect , miniature television screens , and they show both the scene as received by the camcorder lens and also the recorded picture when the machine is switched to playback .
11 The danger , as ever , is that of trivialisation of the curriculum as received by pupils .
12 There we identified and discussed in detail a number of factors critical to the quality and impact of any such course : the clarity and appropriateness of the messages conveyed ; the degree of match between messages as intended and as received ; the appropriateness of the methods used to convey the messages in question .
13 This team is responsible for all text and graphic material as received from contributors or written in-house .
14 The trail appears to have gone cold and it would be difficult now to resurrect it successfully , but the incomplete notes are available as received if anyone would like to look at them .
15 A benefit will be treated as received in the United Kingdom if , had the benefit been income arising from possessions , s65(6)– ( 9 ) would have deemed the income to have been received in the United Kingdom .
16 If the volume of data will permit , ‘ calling over ’ the information as received by the computer against the earliest written documents can be helpful .
17 The reproduction of an historic statue of the Mother of God in the Cathedral , demonstrates a sensitivity to the vibrant traditions of the past , drawing on them so as to enrich ones own faith not only of God 's choice of Our Lady and her example , but also of the many wonderful traditions in the diocese which provides continuity , constantly enriching the present .
18 Written with small firms in mind , MAAP will produce audit planning and control documentation to satisfy the audit regulations , as well as generating high quality financial statements , all from one source of data .
19 As a prototype tool , ezX 3.2 allows users to revise the GUI without recompiling the application as well as generating C , Ada or UIL data structures .
20 Revenue-raising measures were assessed as generating nearly $20,000 million .
21 It is intended to provide household water to 30 million people , and irrigate crops which could feed 20 million , as well as generating large quantities of hydro-electric power .
22 Other sources observe that HP and Sun , who came to the MAS announcement as cheerleaders , did not exactly pledge to adopt it leaving only IBM who was already involved .
23 There is no such thing as sexing a grape .
24 Nor were donors always royalty : the wife of Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud adorned a crucifix at Waltham in Essex with a crown , as well as decking it with other ornaments .
25 They were more than fairly high , merry as grigs , and prepared to go on all night .
26 ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests .
27 Vial is said to have published his proposals for a veterinary school in September 1788 , and also in October 1789 , and he had issued his plan ( perhaps as revised by Granville Penn ) in March 1790 .
28 The recommended model form of Letter of Request as revised in 1985 includes questions as to the date by which a response is needed , and the reasons for the choice of that date .
29 As revised and extended in 1983 , it is required to consider and report on :
30 Under the 1917 Constitution ( as revised ) Mexico is a federal republic comprising 31 states and a Federal District around the capital .
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