Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman Catholicism preserves clear remnants of the medieval canonical teaching in its exclusion of women from the sanctuary as altar servers , or even as participants in the rite of footwashing . |
| 2 | If conscious efforts are made by professionals and social service organizations to strengthen the role of paraprofessionals as arms of the community rather than primarily as arms of the agency , then indigenous leadership and empowerment can be promoted . |
| 3 | Their ideas could be expropriated as freely and easily as blackberries from a hedge in summer . |
| 4 | Nothing confirms the stature of artists more clearly than the way they tackle the potboilers of the repertory , and here as soloist in the Grieg Piano Concerto we had another artist who can be unpredictable , sometimes nervily so , Radu Lupu . |
| 5 | He later served as deputy governor and then as governor of the Bank of Finland but was obliged to resign in 1983 [ see p. 32218 ] . |
| 6 | He served firstly as a curate in Essex and then as rector of the combined parishes of St Antholin and Saint John Baptist in London . |
| 7 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 8 | I do not hold this out as support for the thesis , but rather as evidence of the direction being taken by governments of whatever political complexion . |
| 9 | But since the actors concerned are ordinary members of the community , who probably conceive of themselves not only as kinsmen to one another but also as kinsmen of the supernatural beings whose mythology is being enacted , it once again becomes crucial that the investigator should fully understand the nuances of the kinship language in which the multifaceted relationships between the living and the dead are being expressed . |
| 10 | As soon as regulars at the Stirrup pub in Birkenhead heard about his request , they arranged fund-raising events and collected £1,819 for equipment , including two syringe drivers and two special mattresses for cancer patients . |
| 11 | Meeting in emergency session as soon as news of the attack reached Yerevan , the Armenian capital , the Armenian Supreme Soviet passed a resolution accusing Gorbachev of permitting Azerbaijan to commit " state terrorism " and of " drawing Armenia into war " . |
| 12 | To raise funds for the buildings , it was resolved that ‘ friends of the Institution should be requested to lend money on interest at three per cent per annum — the principal to be repaid as soon as funds of the College were found sufficient for that purpose ’ . |
| 13 | The poster explains what is happening and how , and shows dramatic NASA pictures of the Antarctic hole as well as illustrations of the affected region over the northern hemisphere . |
| 14 | Featuring ‘ Blues For Ceausescu ’ , ‘ Only Losers Take The Bus ’ , ‘ Shiny Happy People ’ , ‘ 1000% ’ and ‘ Bible Mike ’ as well as footage from the band 's recent support tour with U2 on the European leg of their world tour assembled by splatter movie director George Seminara , Y'Knaa is available in the shops or through mail order from The Fatima Mansions . |
| 15 | Similarly , our data confirm the direct relationship between active disease and decreased peptic activity as well as normalisation of the activity after antibiotic therapy and eradication of the infection . |
| 16 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |
| 17 | Again there was wide consultation both within the Church and outside it , for Archbishops and Bishops are not just figures of local importance but have a national importance as well as leaders of the Church of the English People . |
| 18 | On Feb. 16 , Baker met President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan as well as leaders of the democratic opposition , who urged the USA to extend diplomatic recognition to Uzbekistan as a means of improving the situation for opposition parties . |
| 19 | But for now he is as immovable as England hero Robin Smith , who blasted Graham Gooch 's men to a quickfire success , clinching his third Man of the Match award as well as Man of the Series . |
| 20 | Closer scrutiny of the precise meaning of ‘ alone , ’ as well as verification of the length of time infants would spend alone in a day , is needed if drawing conclusions that sudden infant deaths are not more common in babies whose periods of sleep are taken ‘ on their own . ’ |
| 21 | Ford claims 0–60mph in 9.8secs and a top speed of 116mph , so plainly your money can buy a lot more performance as well as refinement in a sporting hatchback . |
| 22 | She is in shock and in pain and requires an immediate transfusion of love and an injection of strength in the form of your quiet sympathy and understanding , and practical help with all the arrangements she has to make , as well as assistance with the simple routines of daily living ; for even these may be too much for her to cope with alone while she is engaged in the important and necessary task of grieving . |
| 23 | At the time of going to press , Sir Anthony had already had a series of strategy discussions with chief executive Dr Brian Eyre , as well as meetings with the DTI 's privatisation advisers , investment bankers Barclays De Zoete Wedd , and our own advisers , management consultants McKinseys and merchant bankers Lazard Brothers . |
| 24 | The Spaniards were heavily outnumbered ( the French ambassador , d'Estrades , had prepared for a struggle by bringing to London a number of officers from regiments commanded by himself and his son as well as soldiers from the garrison of Gravelines , on the northern coast of France ) ; but they none the less won the immediate contest by cutting the traces of the horses pulling the French ambassador 's coach . |
| 25 | The DVR Company currently leases the Buckfastleigh line to the South Devon Railway Trust at a peppercorn rent , but has overall control of the revenues from the cafe and bookshop as well as rents from the Butterfly Centre and Otter Sanctuary previously developed by them . |
| 26 | For those wanting to plunder moribund proprietary bases for applications , as well as conformance to the 1974 and 1985 ANSI definitions , Federal Information Processing Standard 21–2 and X/Open Portability Guide 3 , it supports RM/Cobol , Data General Interactive Cobol , IBM OS/VS Cobol and VS/Cobol II , and Microsoft Cobol . |
| 27 | Since St Petersburg University also employed Konstantin Kavelin ( the prime advocate of conferring land as well as liberty on the peasants ) , Vladimir Spasovich ( an enthusiastic Polish nationalist ) , Aleksandr Pypin ( a cousin of the trenchant journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii ) and Boris Utin ( a former associate of Mikhail Petrashevskii ) , it could have been said to represent almost all the forward-looking opinions of the day . |
| 28 | Friern Hospital have stressed the importance of their supra district services and the need for a medium secure unit as well as provision for the special needs of long stay patients . |
| 29 | Thus , under capitalism , women 's oppression is not simply a question of individual men oppressing individual women , nor of men in general oppressing women in general ; it takes the form of exploitation in the labour market , which has become essential to maintaining capitalism — low wages , harsh working conditions , little job security — as well as exploitation in the home and family . |
| 30 | Once there , a visit to the Spanish Riding School in Hofburg is essential in order to see the Crown Jewels , as well as marvel at the world famous white stallions . |