Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 2 | Not glass to reflect a bit of the world , but a crystal ball to look into so as to understand the world . |
| 3 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 4 | If you and Mr Fairfax come to my office at ’ — he glanced at his watch — ‘ four o'clock this afternoon , bringing those items with you , we will regard the subject of your withholding them until now as closed . |
| 5 | This reasoning seems plausible , though it is also possible that policies which , as it turned out , led to non-profitable growth , might at least is some cases be accounted for simply as failed experiments in increasing profitability . |
| 6 | In discussing equation ( 9.91 ) , firstly notice that , when the line is loaded by the characteristic impedance , that is , when , it reduces to just as expected . |
| 7 | There are two types of discourse referred to here as constituting the kinship system . |
| 8 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | As the '91 World Cup unfolded Canada 's strength in depth , at least as represented by the 26 players who travelled to France , emerged as a major asset . |
| 10 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 11 | It must be said , too , that the early and middle 1980s , at least as compared to the late 1980s and the early 1990s , were a remarkably placid time , without the edge brought to American cultural and artistic life by demands for sexual and gender liberation and by AIDS-induced desperation . |
| 12 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
| 13 | But in emphasising the role of the norm he is quite consciously diminishing the role of the state — at least as expressed in its legal apparatus — and in doing so he underplays its role in constructing attitudes to sexuality , through marriage laws , the regulation of deviance , the judiciary , the police , as well as , more generally , the education system , the welfare system , and so on . |
| 14 | He is , however , critical of the regulationist approach , at least as applied by Dunford and Perrons , for not really incorporating uneven development as part of their explanation . |
| 15 | It is the emerging trade policy of the Clinton administration , at least as demonstrated by trade sanctions threatened on April 30th against Japan , Brazil , India and others . |
| 16 | These settlements felt at least as detached from England as the Massachusetts Bay Company , and of course they had less of a legal foundation , because they had no charters of their own . |
| 17 | This , together with many variants and extensions to its basic pattern , is now at least as ingrained in the popular musical consciousness as the thirty-two-bar ballad form was between 1920 and 1950 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it seems probable that the scientific spirit , at least as seen by non-scientists , encouraged more critical and liberal attitudes to religion ; this can be seen in the Hibbert Lectures , which began in 1878 . |
| 19 | Robert was n't sure that their sexual relations were in line with Islamic thinking — at least as formulated by Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 20 | So , among people generally , there is very little overt difficulty in getting some form of credit , at least as reported by people themselves . |
| 21 | The pressure for an increase in wage levels , at least as agreed at the local branch or shop-floor , steadily mounted , and in the 1977–8 pay round settlements averaged over 1 5 per cent . |
| 22 | There were two notable features of the museum community 's response to this ongoing crisis , at least as manifested at the convention . |
| 23 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 24 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 25 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 26 | If you receive any of the following , you can forget about the tax angle altogether — at least as regards these particular items : |
| 27 | It seems a frequent theme in penal history that the two professions do not trust each other , at least as regards doing each other 's job . |
| 28 | As far as possible and at least as regards all legal aspects , the lawyers should be clearly responsible for compliance with these regulations . |
| 29 | The finding by Fritz and Brooks that vagotomy abolishes the choleretic response to feeding in cholecystectomised dogs suggests that , at least as regards the digestive function of bile , neural regulation of biliary secretion may be of greater functional importance than is generally acknowledged . |
| 30 | While there may be some doubt whether such provision will continue in future salary settlements , the University remains firmly of the view that the majority of these arrangements , at least as regards academic staff , are an inadequate substitute for satisfactory levels of general salary increase when applied to a university in which virtually all staff are of the highest quality . |