Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taxes Act 1988 , ss671 and 672 apply where any person has power to revoke or otherwise determine a settlement or any provision thereof , and the settlor or his spouse may become beneficially entitled to all or any part of the settled property or income thereof as the result of such revocation or determination . |
| 2 | For an RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices overseas as principal of an MNP which has held or received client 's money in the period to , the fee is £150 . |
| 3 | It comes with Tetris , a simple but addictive Russian game , for $89 in the US , or £99 here as an overpriced import from Toys R Us . |
| 4 | The Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarcto Miocardico ( GISSI-2 ) , its international extension , and the Third International Study of Infarct Survival ( ISIS-3 ) are large mortality trials that have provided reliable and consistent information on the risks and benefits of combined aspirin and subcutaneous heparin or aspirin alone as adjuncts to thrombolysis ( table I ) . |
| 5 | In your do-it-yourself practice , put one or two well-known phrases or sentences together as SAS exercises ( at normal-pace speech of course ) . |
| 6 | As a result , some words will provide more overlaps than others purely as a result of the length of their definitions . |
| 7 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 8 | Yes , he is arrogant , addressing players , directors and interviewers alike as ‘ young man ’ , whatever their age . |
| 9 | The wind blew in a low hum , making the trees shift and rustle eerily as if there were shadows waiting in the darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ It owes much to acting of charm and conviction from Michael Crawford and Sarah Long as the boy and girl , ’ wrote the Coventry Evening Telegraph critic . |
| 11 | These changes were seen by players and supporters alike as the dawning of a new age . |
| 12 | Zeng was deeply affected by being exposed to a wider range of photographic influences and styles during these years , but it took an exhibition of Cartier-Bresson 's work in Peking in 1987 to finally convince him that photographs could actually carry meaning and profundities just as a painting or a piece of music can . |
| 13 | In those days the fieldworker retained his status as a privileged stranger and proceeded to make a catalogue of ancient manners and customs much as if he were a policeman investigating a crime . |
| 14 | Economic circumstances , particularly women 's employment , are related to family formation and dissolution both as cause and effect . |
| 15 | A romantic comedy , with Steve Guttenberg as a man with a new face and Shelley Long as his novelist sister . |
| 16 | This annual event lacked gaiety , being viewed by Ministers and MPs alike as a necessary chore where political shop would be the most attractive item on the menu . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , civil aviation was correctly perceived by the British and Americans alike as an area of enormous growth after 1945 . |
| 18 | We perceive his doubt and weariness simultaneously as a natural reaction to circumstances , and as a temptation , even a phantasm or illusion of the Dark Tower . |
| 19 | Good design brings house and garden together as a single entity . |
| 20 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 21 | Using a Barthesian notion of myth , i.e. seeing myth as the signifying process by which ideology is naturalised , and film therefore as a myth-making medium , Johnston and Cook 's work was concerned with classic Hollywood cinema . |
| 22 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 23 | I was aware of Sergei and Masha only as invisible presences in the blackness . |
| 24 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 25 | But Norwich manager Mike Walker remained coy about the destination of the Championship saying : ‘ It would be stupid to say we will win it but we have as good as chance now as the others . |
| 26 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |