Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to this and partially as a result of it , there is little in the way of national planning ’ . |
| 2 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 3 | Radishes : best sown little and often as a catch crop among other vegetables . |
| 4 | Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson ! |
| 5 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 6 | Alexander the Great also found Greek culture valuable if only as a way of patronizing his Macedonian peers : he remarked to a Greek fellow-feaster ( Plutarch Alex . |
| 7 | There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result . |
| 8 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 9 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 10 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 11 | Agnes Fogerty , quiet and still as a mouse , and not unlike that timid animal in her much-pressed grey flannel skirt and twin-set to match , stood oblivious of the chaos around her . |
| 12 | Most horsemen in Suffolk did not powder the bone but used it whole and also as a device to jade and not to draw the horse . |