Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new structures as finally adopted comprised three bodies — a State Council , a revised Supreme Soviet , and an interim Economic Committee . |
| 2 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 3 | Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime . |
| 4 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 5 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 6 | In the context of what Canada achieved — solid victories over Fiji and Romania , a six-point loss to France in a game that most Canadians feel could just as well have provided another win , and , finally , defeat by New Zealand and a heart-stirring two-try finish — Birtwell and his squad have good reason to be satisfied . |
| 7 | Buggery as presently defined covers non-consensual acts between males and between men and women and consensual acts between men and women and between males unless the latter are aged 21 and the acts take place in private . |
| 8 | There were admittedly plenty of countries even in Europe — and practically all outside that continent — where the left , revolutionary or otherwise , as yet failed to make any impact on the peasantry ; as the Russian populists ( see chapter 9 above ) discovered when they decided to ‘ go to the people ’ in the 1870s . |
| 9 | The only scholar as yet to have followed this scent is Tom Paulin in his Thomas Hardy ; The Poetry of Perception ( Totowa , New Jersey , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | He therefore sees effective RE as essentially helping to liberate all pupils " from the taboos which inhibit them from exploring freely the experiential and cognitive options available " ( Hay 1990 : 109 ) . |
| 11 | Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place . |
| 12 | Some grandparents are remembered as explicitly refusing to give any help , as for an illegitimate , fatherless grandchild , or for a parent who drank . |