Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it 's certainly better to be safe than sorry especially better to be safe than sorry especially as one of the symptoms of a d.c. offset at the input would be a similar offset at the output . |
| 2 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 3 | As a couple , they appear as ‘ babes in the wood ’ , helpless and hopeless together as they would be on their own , beset by the awfulness of everyone else . |
| 4 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 5 | His oarsmen held his great galley back off the beach , ready to leave again at a word as Eachuinn Odhar leaped thigh-deep to surge ashore , energetic and agile almost as in his youth , and much more dangerous . |
| 6 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 7 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 8 | This makes the Scottish footwork look very light and easy particularly as it is allied to the steps of petit and grand allegro he also used . |
| 9 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 10 | Since both f and g decrease from ½ towards -½ in the interaction region , it is appropriate to divide this region into the subregions A and B in which the product fg is positive and negative respectively as indicated in Figure 10.4 . |
| 11 | But for the caring and hard work of the Pet Rescue Fund Committee many animals would not be alive and well today as they deserve to be . |
| 12 | Like his celebrated 1976 Macbeth , which teamed McKellen and Judi Dench , Nunn 's Othello was deliberately small-scale and intimate so as to shift the emphasis away from overripe declamation and directorial grandstanding and back to the fevered pulse of the play . |
| 13 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana was shocked , distressed and puzzled yesterday as she saw pictures of Somalia 's starving children . |
| 15 | ‘ The portrayal of women in the media is negative and deleterious both as the traditional wife-mother and gracious-lady portraits that limit the woman in growth and leadership , and the siren-victim-criminal image that exploits womanhood . ’ |
| 16 | They were intended , primarily , to provide interactive training to a level equivalent to BTEC and City and Guilds , acceptable to the Council for Vocational Qualifications and marketable subsequently as commercial , generic courseware . |
| 17 | His attitude towards it was dismissive and arrogant almost as though MI5 had decided the result before the enquiry had begun . |
| 18 | The mountains swing away to the east , running into Venezuela , but the volcanic chain after a short gap in the dreary and fever-ridden jungles of the Isthmus of Panama , reappears in full vigour in Costa Rica , and extends throughout the Central American republics of Nicaragua , El Salvador and Guatemala , which are by reputation as unstable and explosive politically as the many volcanoes that they contain . |
| 19 | Has back nut and available mainly as compression fitting |
| 20 | Statham Lodge was built in 1742 in extensive wooded grounds as a country manor house , and remains as graceful and elegant now as when it was built . |
| 21 | This habitually hurts the Communists ( 8-10% of the vote ) , is curiously fair to the same-sized Clean Government vote , and fair enough as between the Liberal Democrats and the main Socialist parties . |
| 22 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 23 | Surely if that tense moment had affected him at all he would not sound so cool and distant now as he reached for Chalon 's reins . |
| 24 | Many were two-storeyed and followed a custom not familiar in the classical period of Greece in that two orders appeared on the front colonnade , Doric on the ground floor and Ionic above as in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos II of Pergamon in the agora of Athens ( 38 ) . |
| 25 | The doctor was worried about brain damage but Andy seemed just as bright and intelligent afterwards as he 'd been before , remembering details from earlier in his childhood and performing above average in the memory tests the doctor gave him and even doing well in school when that started again after the winter break . |
| 26 | Er but radical certainly as compared to how things operated before , when you went into the fitting shop , you know , you could , you could only walk a few feet |
| 27 | The clock keeps going as usual even as you go through the boundary . |
| 28 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 29 | The Americans were anxious to see the Russians engaged in the Far East as soon as possible so as to minimise American losses . |
| 30 | Get actual local conditions as early as possible so as to have time to make any amendments to your plan . |