Example sentences of "[that] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 as I said earlier erm I suggested to them that perhaps as they went out so much perhaps one the company would do it , they sounded quite enthusiastic
2 Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product .
3 The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement .
4 Simultaneously the council affirmed that just as the bishops of the great cities of Rome and Syrian Antioch exercised jurisdiction beyond the confines of their own diocese and province , so also the bishop of Alexandria should hold jurisdiction throughout Egypt and Libya .
5 Gillham continues to argue that just as the participant is protected from physical hurt by the parameters of ‘ it 's only a game ’ , so the same protection applies to psychological hurt .
6 Bukharin argued that just as there is a period of political disintegration , so too will there be a period of technical and productive collapse .
7 The same words were used when Princess Anne 's separation from Mark Phillips was announced , and Penny Junor believes that just as Princess Anne eventually divorced so she could remarry , so Prince Charles and Princess Diana will divorce in time .
8 He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed .
9 ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’
10 It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them .
11 We 've already seen that just as we have different tastes , so we all have different sensitivities .
12 Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car .
13 Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept .
14 It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities .
15 It could be argued that just as some firms specialise in commercial work , other firms concentrate on criminal advocacy .
16 We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ .
17 Our data show that just as there is functional heterogeneity in the periphery , there is heterogeneity of intermitotic time ( lifespan ) .
18 Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) .
19 We should also remember that just as not every piece of writing need go through one or more stages of drafting , so some pieces of writing need not be pursued to a finished stage .
20 Lord Morris said that just as it was for Parliament to lay down the procedures to be followed for the passing of legislation , so it was for Parliament to determine whether these procedures had been followed .
21 This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them .
22 It seems to follow that just as the notion of the meaning of a single sentence is indeterminate , so the notion of two sentences having the same meaning is indeterminate .
23 It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE .
24 Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years .
25 It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list .
26 ‘ What happens is that just as they are about to speak , they take a quick breath , ’ explains Angela Caine .
27 We are sure that just as those Members ' performance in the Committee will be noted , so their performance in the House today will be noted .
28 The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making .
29 Second , Titles V and VI make it explicitly clear that just as with other aspects of Community life , the institutions of the EEC , in particular the Commission , are to be fully involved in ‘ Union ’ foreign and home policy .
30 And it is ironic that just as we are beginning to turn to it for answers to environmental questions , it has begun aspiring to Western ways .
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