Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 2 | Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures . |
| 3 | Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister . |
| 4 | But to celebrate the dignity and resilience of man is itself an honourable ambition and just as moving and true . |
| 5 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 6 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 7 | for one pound and unfortunately as he the option of the contract and on a number of occasions question whether he should exercise the option . |
| 8 | The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties . |
| 9 | Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff . |
| 10 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 11 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 12 | Furthermore we have a series of major landscape features , er which are been referred to in the greenbelt local plan and elsewhere as wedges , which you 'll see from the map enter into the very heart of the city itself . |
| 13 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 14 | " The stream mysterious glides beneath , " Melinda quoted , " green as a dream and deep as death . " |
| 15 | The Welsh international has played out of his skin throughout the FA Cup campaign and just as John Byrne 's goals have carried Sunderland through Norman 's saves have undoubtedly kept them in . |
| 16 | They sat back warm as toast and tight as drums and Hepzibah said , ‘ I 've got to see to Mrs Gotobed now . |
| 17 | Mr Rumback had been asleep slumped over his desk and just as Endill removed the last screw he awoke with a start . |
| 18 | Even in a country such as Ivory Coast , generally regarded as in the capitalist camp , government has been the decisive player in the economy not only as policymaker but also as holder of equity capital . |
| 19 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 20 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 21 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 22 | In particular , a payment is regarded as a voluntary payment and so as irrecoverable in the following circumstances : |
| 23 | How are we free unless we fight for freedom and like as not break one or more of the Commandments ? ’ |
| 24 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 25 | Other treaties of alliance do not contain such precise prohibitions against conflicting agreements , but may be understood as forming part of a regional defence framework and thus as impliedly restricting future freedom of treaty-making . |
| 26 | Thus there seems a prima facie risk that social work intervention will increasingly be characterised by recourse to legal justification , and that , regardless of the debate about whether compulsion is on the increase , the public care of children will be further identified with compulsory removal and thus as antipathetic to family care . |
| 27 | Xinhua ( the New China News Agency ) reported on March 3 that Xu Jiatun , who had been replaced in February 1990 as head of Xinhua 's Hong Kong branch and thus as China 's de facto representative in Hong Kong [ see p. 37185 ] , had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and had lost his seat on the party 's central advisory commission for " deserting the party and the people " and going abroad without permission . |
| 28 | Benjamin , Adorno noted , understood ‘ commodity fetishism ’ as part and parcel of allegory and both as integral to human consciousness . |
| 29 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 30 | These changes in the subject matter of international law , in the participants in international activities , and in the arenas within which the participants perform have exposed the inadequacies of the bilateral model for the accommodation of third parties , either as individual members of the international community or collectively as the international community as a whole . |