Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | For just as the properties of individuals are dependent on their social context , the set of social relations which constitutes a practice does not exist in isolation . |
| 32 | For just as Marx , when faced with the problem ‘ How does man make his history ? ’ replied with another question , ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ , so the proposal that the economic organisation of a society determines its superstructure should prompt us to ask how the base itself is determined . |
| 33 | Far from it , for he has matched his chosen designs to the theme of the growth of professionalism in architecture from the formation of the Architects ' Club in 1791 to the founding of the Institute of British Architects in 1837 ; and more than this , for just as architects strove for recognition in a professional world being transformed by the Industrial Revolution and new sciences , so does Worsley show us how this new breed of architect acquired technical proficiencies : in the presentation of drawings , in methods of copying and reproduction , in colour coding , and in advanced modes of perspective . |
| 34 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 35 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 36 | I can sleep anywhere for just as long as I 've got . |
| 37 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 38 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 39 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 40 | First of all as I said , we 'd like to go through a vehicle check before we go out . |
| 41 | Very often the consumer media tend to be thought of together as all one group , but this leads all too soon to the sort of comments outlined in the introduction to this chapter . |
| 42 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 43 | But there is at least some chance of cooperation , in contrast to the absence of an obligation to plan together between higher education , sixth forms in secondary schools and colleges of further as well as tertiary education . |
| 44 | And the bands we think of now as being the most original have always , always based their music on someone else 's . |
| 45 | Start getting rid of tomorrow as well . |
| 46 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 47 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 48 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 49 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
| 50 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 51 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 52 | Have you got them out of here as well ? |
| 53 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 54 | She then attempted a drowsy recap on the Royal Family but I shouldered my way out of there as soon as I could . |
| 55 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 56 | Sales Express , a firm of computerized auctioneers , has experienced unparalleled growth of late as the marketplace has become flooded with goods from companies that have gone into receivership . |
| 57 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |
| 58 | Although , today , justices of the peace are thought of primarily as being judicial bodies , they nevertheless retain certain administrative functions ( the best known of which is the issuing of liquor licences ) which , however , are a pale shadow of their former role . |
| 59 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 60 | A modernist moment , too : this is the sort of exchange , in which the everyday tampers with the sublime , that we like to think of proprietorially as typical of our own wry and unfoolable age . |