Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists , for example , often work with theories which stipulate that human economic behaviour is motivated by rationality , more or less conceived as the maximisation of means to ends . |
| 2 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 3 | The policy relied on the government being able to meet its borrowing requirements through persuading the public to take up successive issues of government loan stock and through internal ( or technically known as departmental ) support . |
| 4 | Such consensus was originally explained as the product of a distinct personality which members of the police either possessed before coming to the force or quickly develop as a result of the job ( for a survey of the literature on this see Adlam 1981 ) . |
| 5 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 6 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 7 | Stress in the nurse can erode the nurse-patient relationship , or even act as a barrier to forming one . |
| 8 | Last autumn , Mr Alton threatened to quit or even stand as an independent after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 9 | Something else that is added to marzipan , or even used as an almond substitute , is apricot kernels . |
| 10 | The Model Law is , as its name implies , a model which can be adopted in its entirety , adapted , or simply used as the basis for ideas ; it has no legal force as such . |
| 11 | If you have any details of , are related to , employ or indeed work as a scientist , in whatever capacity , please let know . |
| 12 | Often the grounds of such houses were acquired as much-needed public parks ( or indeed bequeathed as such by their owners ) . |
| 13 | The two central , baggy-suited dancers , Lynne Bristow and William Trevitt , either mirror each others ' movements ( the old man perhaps communing with his diary ) or else dance as a couple ( the man reliving past relationships ) . |
| 14 | It was they who would decide whether such rites should be prohibited as too economically wasteful , or else encouraged as a possible attraction to the future tourist industry . |
| 15 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 16 | Although rarely seen as an attacking force in the first half , the Whites , nevertheless , led 1–0 at half-time thanks to Billy Totten 's eighth minute goal , a tragedy for home keeper Declan Devine . |
| 17 | Although widely regarded as an excellent ‘ debut ’ , it did n't really capture the band 's fiery live shows . |
| 18 | Although widely regarded as an excellent ‘ debut ’ , it did n't really capture the band 's fiery live shows . |
| 19 | Among those assigned a specific household office , rather than loosely designated as ‘ our servant ’ , are the esquires of the body John Norreys and Walter Hungerford , and the usher of the chamber Edward Hardgill . |
| 20 | Among those assigned a specific household office , rather than loosely designated as ‘ our servant ’ , are the esquires of the body John Norreys and Walter Hungerford , and the usher of the chamber Edward Hardgill . |
| 21 | Pheromones offer all kinds of possibilities : they are chemicals produced by an animal that effectively act as external hormones , and attract ( or repel ) members of the same species . |
| 22 | As emphasized in Section 17.4 , linear stability theory does not in principle predict the type of motion that eventually occurs as a result of this growth — non-linear processes must always come into play before that stage . |
| 23 | All fruits that naturally grow as trees , even if trained by gardeners into ornamental shapes , are normally grouped together as top or tree fruits . |
| 24 | In the meditation it is given in Latin , the Middle English version from the Primer is : This tone of penitent confidence in the grace made available through Christ dominates the longer meditation which sustains a formal devotional element that constantly acts as a buffer between the meditator and the subject of his meditation . |
| 25 | I think if we all know what 's available it would , it would be a lot easier than , than just operating as as you know , five separate units . |
| 26 | Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning , the Angelina , almost slack-sailed and ghosting along under a Meltemi that hardly rated as a zephyr , tied up along the starboard side of the Ariadne . |
| 27 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
| 28 | Town planning was more than ever seen as a standard bearer for recovery , and the determination to rebuild pervaded the planning literature of the day . |
| 29 | Although still classified as a rare breed , the British White has increased considerably in numbers in recent years and has also been exported : it seems to thrive in hot climates and has a good degree of heat tolerance , helped by its pigmented skin and reflecting white coat . |
| 30 | Although formally designated as a clerk of the Privy Seal ( 1389 ) and the holder of the office of secondary there ( 1394 ) , his status and duties had only nominal connections with that place of drudgery . |