Example sentences of "[adv] as [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so long as winning elections is seen as a mere matter of tweaking a market image , or of changing a brand title or logo , the whole enterprise is doomed to failure . |
| 2 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 3 | Again this is a key finding , for little can be done about speeds , safety and environmental traffic management issues so long as housing areas have through traffic inflicted upon them . |
| 4 | While not as flexible as an overdraft or the Managed Rate Facility , they offer the advantages of : cheaper borrowing , especially as adding Barclays name to a bill provides you with the finest rates available on the Discount Market . |
| 5 | The government is experienced not merely as providing background amenities against which individuals pursue their choices , but as an external constraining and coercive organisation . |
| 6 | An invitation to sing in the cathedral encourages parishes to see it not only as providing expertise but also as receiving what other musicians can provide . |
| 7 | The Thatched House Society saw their role not only as releasing debtors but making sure they never had to rescue them again . |
| 8 | Only as attending proceeds , however , does it become possible to describe the immediately antecedent experience of a conscious episode . |
| 9 | He defined the need for special forces in the area : first as troops for post-occupational duties in captured territories ; second , as ‘ small raiding parties of the thug variety , for which we have L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade and the Special Boat Section ’ ; and finally as raiding parties on a larger scale which was the original purpose in retaining the old Middle East Commando . |
| 10 | ‘ Prevention ’ is recast in terms of preventing harm , preventing offending and preventing the need for compulsory intervention in families ' lives through court orders : but no longer as preventing children being ‘ looked after ’ on their parents ' behalf . |
| 11 | More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters , there were so few good ones and so many bad ones . |
| 12 | Elizabeth had been amazed to see workmen slicing through stone blocks with hand-axes , just as easily as cutting butter . |
| 13 | The observations cited above as constituting problems are only problematic in the light of some theory . |
| 14 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 15 | Just as teaching practice is prescribed for student teachers , so the course would include a ‘ sandwich ’ element . |
| 16 | In days past , when children did not have the delights of the mass media to occupy their time for them , diary keeping was regarded as a ‘ good thing ’ for the young , just as collecting things was regarded as keeping hands and minds occupied . |
| 17 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 18 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 19 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 20 | This distinction , between , as it were , having an existence , and possessing an identity , erm is a major preoccupation in the novel , just as finding answers to the questions ‘ Where am I ? ’ or rather more importantly ‘ Who am I ? ’ is one of its central objectives . |
| 21 | Angle bending modes may give rise to characteristic frequencies just as stretching modes do , but bending frequencies are much more variable . |
| 22 | The selling approach to each category will tend to differ , depending upon customer needs , just as selling approaches differ when considering physical products . |
| 23 | And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so . |
| 24 | They could use the possibility of buying outside as bargaining leverage to get better performance from their own provider " ( Enthoven 1985 : 40 ) . |
| 25 | WHEN A CLUB as great as Cardiff fall on times as hard as they are now it is easy to understand why they ask New Zealand 's John Hart if he could take over as coaching director and why they have asked Australia 's Alec Evans the same question . |
| 26 | In 1830 , when the governor , Edward Nicholls , returned to England on sick leave , Beecroft took over as acting governor , a post he held with distinction for the next two years . |
| 27 | In May she was asked to take over as acting principal for six months in his absence . |
| 28 | ‘ This is known technically as creating brand equity ahead of sales . |
| 29 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |
| 30 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |