Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , just as a county council in eighty five , all the councillors are up for re-election just as in a parliamentary general election , yeah ? |
| 2 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 3 | We arrive after midday just as the sun is climbing high . |
| 4 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 5 | ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council . |
| 6 | Guitarist Paul Leary Walthall is a virtuoso of abjection just as Hendrix was of free flight , his domain the sewer rather than the firmament which Jimi traversed like a comet . |
| 7 | If he had indeed come up here determined to end his life , then he might have climbed over the guard rail , leaving a scrap of thread behind as he did so . |
| 8 | Acrow Ltd. obtained an injunction to restrain an American company , S.I. , from acting in breach of contract so as to impede Acrow 's manufacture of machinery under licence from S.I.S.I. purported to ignore the injunction and instructed Rex Chainbelt , suppliers of components for Acrow 's process , to cease supply . |
| 9 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 10 | The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control . |
| 11 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 12 | The skinhead style is a defensive assertion of whiteness just as Rasta is a celebration of the black cultural roots . |
| 13 | ‘ Real ’ Christianity , in Clarkson 's words , depended upon ‘ a total change of heart or of mind so as to produce a corresponding change of Life ’ . |
| 14 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 15 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 16 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 17 | Despite both this importance and the continuous expansion of third world military expenditure , this topic is a relatively neglected area of study particularly as regards systematic statistical investigation . |
| 18 | THE 15-week ambulance dispute moved into a new area of confrontation yesterday as non-emergency workers in Surrey were threatened with the sack unless they returned to normal working in the new year . |
| 19 | If this happens he will change the angle of climb automatically as the glider starts to gain height , and he will continue to pull it higher for a few seconds even if a power failure has occurred . |
| 20 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 22 | Or are there degrees of ghosthood just as there are degrees of warmth and sanity and beauty and livingness and dyingness ? |
| 23 | One can learn the techniques of counselling just as one can learn to sing or to run but one will still be in a different league from those who were born with these skills . |
| 24 | If you have an orange badge and you wish to park on the John Radcliffe Hospital site , you can park free of charge just as you would in one of the Council 's car parks park free of charge . |
| 25 | For example , you mentioned the need for public liability insurance , so I went ahead and arranged that ; I also had signs made saying ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ , as you recommended ; I took care to explain to the volunteers to avoid disturbing the kicking stones , and to avoid making heaps of spoil so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 26 | There are three generations of neutrino just as there are of every other particle . |
| 27 | In a number of provisions the 1977 Protocols seek to restate the principles of the laws of war so as to make as clear as possible the unacceptability of ‘ total war ’ . |
| 28 | Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms . |
| 29 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |
| 30 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |