Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had done that together as children in the north of England , experimenting with different lengths of pipe . |
| 2 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 3 | We usually refer to this nowadays as Hackett Forge . |
| 4 | Is he to render this orthographically as grape britain ? |
| 5 | This level of command was fixed ie as General Dwight Eisenhower you would not be expected to fly planes into combat , nor as the jockey of a M1 Abrams tank could you try and effect changes in grand strategy . |
| 6 | What is striking about these is that the code-switch points coincide exactly with the beginning and end of the insertion sequences , off-setting these clearly as London English in an otherwise Creole turn of the conversation . |
| 7 | These salts are present mostly as carbonates , bicarbonates and hydroxides . |
| 8 | Movies in the new albums , appropriately enough , are present only as jokes , in ‘ 57 Channels ( And Nothin' On ) ’ or ‘ Real Man ’ : ‘ Sound came up lights went down/Rambo he was blowin' 'em down . ’ |
| 9 | Allow me to paraphrase the Storr view point : ‘ Mentally ill patients who are homosexual feel inadequate either as men or women , ’ So what ! |
| 10 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 11 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 12 | Before item one , I 'd like to propose we break for lunch as near as one o'clock as business allows . |
| 13 | UPI , except for PM , is available immediately as part of Uniface 5.2 . |
| 14 | The Orange/Matamp GT120 , the beefy 1960s British amp that helped define the sound of bands like Free , Wishbone Ash and the original Fleetwood Mac , is available again as part of the Matamp ‘ Roots ’ range , with only one big difference — it 's green . |
| 15 | American officials had shown greater interest in Korea from 1943 onwards as part of the State Department 's preparations for handling the consequences of Japan 's defeat . |
| 16 | When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices . |
| 17 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 18 | More advanced than Hermes , these rivals became ever more attractive financially as Hermes , an ‘ intermediate technology ’ , threatened to be delayed from 1995 possibly to 2000 . |