Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 2 | More than a quarter of the young workers interviewed had no intention of remaining in agriculture — they hoped to seek more lucrative employment , mainly in the building industry , as lorry drivers , as garage mechanics or perhaps as engineering workers in local factories . |
| 3 | DEATH AS LIFE 'S END ( the Doctor ) , as a crime ( the Detective ) , or just as butchery . |
| 4 | There are fragments of kouroi from Delos as early or nearly as Nikandre 's girl , but before we go on to these a few more general remarks are in place . |
| 5 | Regular meetings with other health visitors for information purposes or purely as support groups can help you to combat the isolation sometimes described by health visitors working in both rural and inner city communities . |
| 6 | Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view . |
| 7 | Roman Catholicism preserves clear remnants of the medieval canonical teaching in its exclusion of women from the sanctuary as altar servers , or even as participants in the rite of footwashing . |
| 8 | There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire . |
| 9 | 1992 will mean changes affecting all of us as consumers , as employers or employees , or simply as citizens . |
| 10 | There was an element of truth in these comments and before charting the history of the regiment he raised , it is worth examining the background of this remarkable man , later known to members of the regiment either as ‘ Colonel David ’ or simply as DS . |
| 11 | Hand-knotted rugs are known as pile rugs , or simply as rugs , and are generally regarded as the most important and aesthetically satisfying manifestations of the oriental rug-maker 's art . |
| 12 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 13 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 14 | If ergonomics is regarded as the science of work then work must be defined as purposeful activity rather than merely as activity for economic gain . |
| 15 | But that proved to be more than enough as Amlwch were dismissed for 72 despite 31 from Jim Harrison . |
| 16 | The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making . |
| 17 | It seems likely that just as extremes of neglect may have long-term deleterious consequences , so may overprotection . |
| 18 | The same words were used when Princess Anne 's separation from Mark Phillips was announced , and Penny Junor believes that just as Princess Anne eventually divorced so she could remarry , so Prince Charles and Princess Diana will divorce in time . |
| 19 | It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE . |
| 20 | The directorate of a company has a responsibility to those with whom they deal as people rather than just as instruments of profit . |
| 21 | The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock . |
| 22 | I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window . |
| 23 | Democracy was further away than ever as censorship and propaganda were intensified . |
| 24 | McCoist and Hateley 's marvellous talents will be more invaluable than ever as Rangers once again try to overcome their massive injury problems . |
| 25 | I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on . |
| 26 | This reflected the Soviet fear that even as CENTO collapsed the United States was preparing the construction of new alliance structures in the Third World and working for an extension of the geographic responsibilities of NATO . |
| 27 | So what you 're s so what you 're saying is that erm one of the consequences could be that even as people are being rehoused from , one of the risks is that other people who are on the h waiting list |
| 28 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 29 | Unfamiliar , clearly posed , these problems are made accessible not quite as history nor yet as fantasy but with something of the acceptable plainness of fairy tale challenges . |
| 30 | If conscious efforts are made by professionals and social service organizations to strengthen the role of paraprofessionals as arms of the community rather than primarily as arms of the agency , then indigenous leadership and empowerment can be promoted . |