Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 2 | In this way what appeared as politically radical to the outside world , was perceived locally as social traditionalism . |
| 3 | The letter in his hand aroused in him a sense of urgency that offset his fear of the narrow enclosed footpath known locally as Dead Man 's Alley . |
| 4 | Diatoms calcium hydrogen carbonate skeletal material these things are probably ending up predominantly as deep sea sediments pelagic sediments , yeah , remember ? |
| 5 | ‘ Right as bloody rain . |
| 6 | For example , what if Mr Heath had won the February 1974 general election , as he nearly did , and carried on as Prime Minister ? |
| 7 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 8 | He at once declared his intention to carry on as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | After three years , the WIPers would be taken on as normal university staff . |
| 10 | Andrew Stavanger stayed on as managing director of the shipping company , with a seat on the board of the group . |
| 11 | DONALD Fothergill has a palpable and daily reminder of the responsibility he has taken on as managing director of Stockton-based Pickerings Lifts . |
| 12 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 13 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 14 | If non-farming activities reach the VAT registration threshold , farmers will be required to register for all their activities , farming and non-farming , and will not be able to carry on as flat rate farmers . |
| 15 | After his party 's heavy defeat in the subsequent general election , Ellis stayed on as chief whip . |
| 16 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 17 | By now , though , the Japanese were getting wary of ambush , and following their usual high standard of training they had sentries hidden in the bushes rather than marching to and fro as ready bait for a commando knife . |
| 18 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 19 | The few French privatisations that occurred before the current Socialist government came in — Compagnie Financiere de Suez being a good example - excited heavy demand from French retail investors , rather as British Gas and British Telecom did in the UK . |
| 20 | He arrived in Virginia at the age of twelve or thirteen , perhaps as one learning seamanship . |
| 21 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 22 | At the same time six Westmorland Rifle corps were brought together as one unit . |
| 23 | Some of you I know will welcome this new opportunity to pay all due fees together as one lump sum in January . |
| 24 | The neon quality vanished and they were all together as one flesh with three faces . |
| 25 | This is not to argue in terms of structuralism but in terms of a combination of institutional form and individual behaviour — elements which are bundled together as either part of ceteris paribus or part of the residual in factor productivity analyses . |
| 26 | Okay all he 's done is given tacit consent , he owns property in England , fine , but that still counts only as tacit consent . |
| 27 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 28 | Conventions are relevant only as one illustration of the non-equivalence of the dependence and the no difference theses . |
| 29 | This publication is intended only as general guidance . |
| 30 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |