Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's 8 o'clock as Kenneth and I strut into Dr McKenzie 's consulting room for the results of the tests . |
| 32 | ‘ For the window-catch , ’ he explained patiently as Loretta and Bridget stared at him . |
| 33 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 34 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 35 | Conscripts were trained to a high pitch and could be called upon in war , not merely as reserves but as front-line troops . |
| 36 | Even in a country such as Ivory Coast , generally regarded as in the capitalist camp , government has been the decisive player in the economy not only as policymaker but also as holder of equity capital . |
| 37 | Indeed , if Wright was hiding last night , it was only as camouflage and he emphatically answered Graham as early as the sixth minute . |
| 38 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 39 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 40 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 41 | They were all agreed that the provision of family allowances would enhance the status of women not only as mothers but as workers because ‘ it would strike at one of the main popular objections to ‘ equal pay for equal work ’ , i.e. the plea that a man requires a family wage whereas a woman requires only an individual subsistence wage ’ ( NUSEC , 1920 , p. 3 ) . |
| 42 | Ravenhill saw the revelations of medicine and eugenics pointing to a greater role for women , not only as mothers but as guardians of those aesthetic qualities which made for physical , intellectual and moral progress . |
| 43 | In the film , one of them , Dr Tony Kallend , appeared to explain that acid rain was nothing to be worried about as it was only as acid as Coca Cola . |
| 44 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 45 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 46 | By the 1840s Thornton was in the forefront of the City of London , not only as merchant and financier but as shipowner and leading marine insurance broker . |
| 47 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 48 | In particular , it examines when children begin to compare with others not only as individuals but also as members of groups . |
| 49 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |
| 50 | Benjaminian allegory functions perhaps as crucially as supplement as it does as ‘ criticism ’ . |
| 51 | Pupils from our friendly neighbourhood school , St John 's , were invited along as passengers and they too became the first to use the bypass . |
| 52 | If a couple is married or living together as man and wife , then they are married or living together as man and wife , then they are liable for their partner 's community charge if it is not paid . |
| 53 | If a couple is married or living together as man and wife , then they are married or living together as man and wife , then they are liable for their partner 's community charge if it is not paid . |
| 54 | The final 100 days during which the Charles and Diana remained living together as man and wife began with reports that the princess was threatening to walk out . |
| 55 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 56 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 57 | The great Fangio ( Arg ) was also in the Maserati team but they only had one race together as team-mates before Fangio moved on to Mercedes . |
| 58 | ‘ Living together as husband and wife ’ |
| 59 | Living Together as Husband and Wife is very concerned about being ‘ fair ’ to the married couple , but the only way they could truly be ‘ fair ’ to the married housewife would be to entitle the single housewife to less SB than she gets … and you can not entitle even a single housewife to less than nothing . |
| 60 | Living Together as Husband and Wife shows that the state clearly recognises the importance of maintaining housewives as dependants since the alternative — redistributing wealth not just within the state but within the family — is too expensive and subversive to contemplate . |