Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 2 | As the possession of documentation for stolen cattle became important , thieves began to turn stolen animals in as strays . |
| 3 | There are some exciting times ahead as we have indicated our willingness to take part in the Gymnaestrada 1991 in Amsterdam . |
| 4 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 5 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 6 | Glue two contrasting colours together as shown and use Blu-tack to stick them to walls and doors . |
| 7 | The ship seemed a million light years away as she tilted her head back , letting the liquid slide coolly down her throat . |
| 8 | Our original vector is then made up of these constituent vectors just as our quantum mechanical states were composed of combinations of other states . |
| 9 | The commonly-held view that good teachers are ones who can pass on their expertise through clear explanations so as to avoid confusing their pupils has some interesting implications . |
| 10 | Because at the moment we have different costing forms on different colours so as to know , to differentiate between post or telephone , face-to-face and so on . |
| 11 | ‘ There are exciting days ahead as the two-year-old classic races loom in the next few months and we could have something hot for next season . ’ |
| 12 | The earth thickened and made different sounds underfoot as ash gave way to elm . |
| 13 | The House controlled a large part of its own timetable , it had a corporate spirit and it could force information out of the government , the best example being the stream of diplomatic Blue Books in which the Foreign Office had to reveal the course of its negotiations with foreign powers almost as soon as the events had occurred . |
| 14 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 15 | Like I had to give her some top priorities yesterday as she was n't going to be about . |
| 16 | ‘ She always had the rubber gloves on as she clucked about the place , ’ recalls Carolyn . |
| 17 | I climbed the high stairs breathlessly as though there were many more of them than there were . |
| 18 | Public relations well as I 've already outlined there the actual fiasco surrounding the proposed er share repurchase there was a public relations nightmare form beginning to end . |
| 19 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 20 | the internal incidence of macro-economic developments particularly as between the six conurbations , the fifteen or so large cities , and their hinterlands in the UK and the implications for local government , public finance and locational policy . |
| 21 | Social perspectives on cognition have come to accept cultural differences not as deficits but as important variation . |
| 22 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 23 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 24 | When boys reach puberty , in primitive societies today as in ancient Greece , a group of them will go away into the mountains , jungle , or other hostile environment to undergo hardship and trials which , if successfully endured , allow them to return to society at a higher level , as adults . |
| 25 | The reasons , I would argue , are not just due to any innate biological features of females , but have social causes just as the ‘ craze ’ itself . |
| 26 | She 's got fucking thigh high boots on as well . |
| 27 | As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms . |
| 28 | ‘ I had a wonderful time in September ’ , said Christy , ‘ and meeting up with my fellow British soldiers again as well as the Germans was very emotional ’ . |
| 29 | With respect to all of these elements there are widely different interpretations both as to their nature and as to the relation between them ; all of which have profound methodological consequences . |
| 30 | People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods . |