Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 2 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |
| 3 | No. 45 was asked whether people wished to attend , if not as members or potential members , as delegates or observers . |
| 4 | Just as essences or forms give rise to those properties , so definitions of those forms , when used as premisses , give rise to conclusions about those properties . |
| 5 | ‘ We needed that performance today as a nation , not just as players or manager , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 7 | Similarly , just as sociologists or some of them , develop revolutionary tendencies from time to time , so too do poets from Wordsworth to Blok . |
| 8 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 9 | He does get angry that dancers are n't treated as well as actors or other performers in Britain and is upset that there are n't more dance shows on TV . |
| 10 | The soldiers carried rocket-launchers as well as rifles or machine-guns and behind them , spaced along the dual carriageway high above the port , were lines of tanks . |
| 11 | Colourless nail varnish should be applied to the suspender points and toe join as well as ladders or snags so that if you got a little ladder or a snag you put colourless nail varnish on it . |
| 12 | Apparently the Chinese are used to living with little heating indoors & we now understand why they wrap themselves up so well , with padded trousers and jackets , as well as caps or enormous fur hats , which they keep on even indoors during the classes . |
| 13 | During the period of the slave trade and plantation labour in the West Indies , a certain number of black Caribbeans found their way to Britain , frequently as sailors or as slaves or servants accompanying their masters . |
| 14 | To treat women of the eighteenth century narrowly as pioneers or precursors of modern feminism has the unfortunate effect of visiting a new teleology on eighteenth century studies . |
| 15 | Watching him , we all became aware that the style of play was beginning to favour forwards who should run as fast as wings or centres . |
| 16 | About three quarters of asylum claimants are already in the country , many of them legitimately as students or visitors and some of them illegitimately , as they have entered the country illegally . |
| 17 | In classical times in Europe and the Middle East dreams were often written about as portents or as guides for action . |
| 18 | There has long been , of course , a thin trickle of foreigners who , having landed on these shores without any pressing necessity , contrived to find fame , fortune or both : maybe as writers or singers , or cooks or clowns , or ( just occasionally ) as entrepreneurs . |
| 19 | We shall end by observing that some adjectives ( in fact most of those discussed in Sections 6.7 and 6.8 , but not former , would-be , so-called nor late unless we give it an altogether different lexical value ) can occur with more than one value , that is , either as separatives or as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 20 | Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant . |
| 21 | Obviously if the whole of the surplus-value is consumed unproductively it makes little difference how it is consumed , either as necessaries or as luxuries . |
| 22 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 23 | Most women who have come , either as mums or as mums-to-be , have found the group useful for social & emotional support and also for practical swapping of ideas and solutions for the minor and not so minor problems we all have as new mums . |
| 24 | about a half of them have previously had a permanent home of their own either as tenants or , for a growing number , as housebuyers ; |
| 25 | However , some yeasts can grow in both ways — either as hyphae or as single cells . |
| 26 | Brigadier Scott is taken to the Sergeants ' Mess to meet the Mess members , all of Whom have played vital parts either as instructors or in the administrative support of the recruits ' training , prior to lunching in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 27 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 28 | It is not in the interest of visually handicapped pupils or their parents for special schools and integrated provision to be considered either as competitors or as exclusive alternatives . |
| 29 | All volcanic rocks , whatever their composition , may turn up either as lavas or pyroclastics , but rocks of some compositions are more often found as lavas , while others are more common as pyroclastics . |
| 30 | The need to monitor that experiment and the conviction that the court would benefit from improved lines of communication between it and those who used the court , either as practitioners or as litigants , had led to the establishment of a Court of Appeal Users ' Committee , representative of both , which would have its first meeting later this month . |