Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Klerk did not significantly address the ANC 's demands , but described as defamatory and false the claim that he was conducting a campaign of political murder , and defended the security forces , which , he declared , operated with impartiality . |
| 2 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 3 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 4 | The new car will bristle with safety hardware , including side intrusion bars and airbags as standard and possibly a roll-over bar for the convertible . |
| 5 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |