Example sentences of "[adv] is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 2 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 3 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 4 | C The property is sold on the footing that the permitted use thereof is as a private dwelling-house . |
| 5 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 6 | Although the physical environment is important to individuals and communities in a variety of ways — as prospect and refuge , for example ( Appleton , 1975 ) as well as an aesthetic resource — its main function by far is as the foundation for human survival . |
| 7 | Her assignment here is as gleeful agent provocateur , playing the same role in the context of the literary establishment that those watchful , silent women play in her own fiction — women who wait out their lives in the house of the enemy , gathering information , biding their time . |