Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures .
2 So long as women 's studies options exist , the rest of the curriculum which is not women 's studies , and the structures in which knowledge is constructed , managed and transmitted , can remain unchanged .
3 Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads .
4 That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum .
5 Empirical research on custody and divorce , on the personal experiences of divorcees both as solicitors ' clients and as consumers of the judicial process , and on the experiences and attitudes of registrars and lawyers added up to proposals for legal reform from an instrumental perspective .
6 Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian .
7 Of course long-term adjustment must be carried out as countries ' competitive positions change , but expenditure-reducing policies seem to be the only option for the authorities under a fixed exchange rate system .
8 As far as magistrates ' courts are concerned , both their jurisdiction and their sentencing powers are limited by law , but a considerable degree of optionality is built into the system for determining the distribution of business between the two sets of criminal courts .
9 For feminists to see all men as ‘ potential rapists ’ is not only grossly simplistic but also denies the specificity of crime and criminal , as well as women 's own potential ( suppressed into depression , self-hatred , and inertia ) to be aggressive and violent , to abuse , batter , and murder — and to consume pornography .
10 It is rather suspicious that the label ‘ illogical ’ has been used to disparage other subordinate groups ' language as well as women 's .
11 ‘ The police , the courts and policy makers , as well as Women 's Aid , are all working to bring effective help to those who need protection , ’ she pointed out .
12 Also available is a discovery pack as well as teachers ' packs and worksheets for children of various ages .
13 For a more girl friendly science , it seems vital that teachers should come to see that when all the masculine packaging , evident in textbooks and resources as well as teachers ' and boys ' behaviour in the classroom , is removed , girls can be very enthusiastic about science . [ … ]
14 Vehicle repairs and servicing may also be attached , as well as maintenance/carpenters ' workshops , and obviously each of these can have separate risks .
15 Their impact and success are also partly determined by the subject area sex education is included under , how it is presented , whether there is any discussion , and whether outside speakers are used , as well as girls ' and boys ' own willingness to participate .
16 The catalogue is 300 pages long with eight essays , as well as artists ' biographies .
17 Packed into The Market Place would be three roundabouts , three switchbacks , a helter-skelter , chair-o-planes and a cake walk as well as children 's roundabouts , stalls and sideshows .
18 The existence of a number of fine houses along the Middlesex bank of the River Thames at Chiswick , close to the Eyot and the ferry — as well as fishermen 's cottages — is recorded , with references to the Parish Church of St. Nicholas , also visits to those houses by royalty , particularly Henry VI and his Court .
19 Among innovations to appear at this juncture were such personal items as cups and tumblers , belt or girdle hooks , sword pommels and scabbard fittings like buckles and chapes , as well as bowmen 's rings .
20 In the 1950s , the decade on which this analysis is focused , timetables could have been translated from one county grammar school to another almost as readily as architects ' plans .
21 They appeared in law school classrooms and law review articles , then as lawyers ' arguments in particular cases at law , then as judicial arguments in dissenting opinions explaining why the majority opinion , reflecting the orthodoxy of the time , was unsatisfactory , then as the opinions of the majority in a growing number of cases , and then as propositions no longer mentioned because they went without saying .
22 Thus , both radicals and élitists have severely shaken the early certainty about the worthwhileness of attempts to disseminate liberal culture as widely as teachers ' skills and school conditions permitted .
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