Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer , I imagine , is no , and the explanation is less to do with Adam Thorpe 's abilities as a novelist , or rather as a mimic , than with the particular fictional alleyway he is bent on investigating : one which , after several promising detours and badly disguised exits , shows every sign of turning into a cul-de-sac . |
| 2 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 3 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
| 4 | Erm owing to the extent Chairman and I think erm we we have established er we were happy that the the level of development er rightly or wrongly as a as a commitment is already in excess of the hundred and two hectares being spoken about . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most technically outstanding examples of this are Milhaud 's string quartets Nos. 8 and 9 , which can be played separately or together as an octet , with each instrument in a different key . |
| 6 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 7 | Or perhaps as a regular ‘ tune-up ’ for key staff . |
| 8 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
| 9 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 10 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 11 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |
| 12 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 13 | He had never married , but his will shows that he regarded Elsynge , his successor in the clerkship , more or less as a son . |
| 14 | They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union . |
| 15 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 16 | Irwin , or any Viceroy , had by the end of the twenties only two possibilities before him : either to follow , for as long as British willpower and resources lasted , an unending road of remorseless repression , or to parley , more or less as an equal with Gandhi and his adjutants with a view to guiding the country , maybe fairly slowly but nonetheless unrelentingly , towards self-government . |
| 17 | After a decade or so as a librarian , and a spell as editor of Books and Bookman in the 1960s , Smith travelled around America with a suitcase full of samples of remaindered copies , which he sold to bargain book shops . |
| 18 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 19 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 20 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 21 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 22 | The institution of monarchy thus dominated the political horizon , whether it was thought of in terms of Divine Right or merely as a secular institution guaranteeing civil peace and security . |
| 23 | 12 ) he will in making his claim have to bring into account any money already received — whether as a deposit or merely as a part payment . |
| 24 | Tempered hardboard ( tempered with oil or resin ) is more durable and water-resistant , so can be used outdoors , eg as a wall lining or cladding ; or indoors as a very hard-wearing floorcovering . |
| 25 | Whether this ebullient novel of 1923 is to be considered as a parody or just as a light-hearted analogue of The Prisoner of Zenda , the resemblances are too close to be mere coincidence . |
| 26 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 27 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 28 | In our collective folk memory — or possibly as a result of seeing too many old Hollywood movies — we think of gold in the form of coins as eminently portable in times of national emergency . |
| 29 | Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant . |
| 30 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |