Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] as a [noun] " 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 Radishes : best sown little and often as a catch crop among other vegetables .
3 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 !
4 There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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