Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the down-side of this variety is the fact that ‘ Broken ’ does n't hang together that well as a whole package , probably because it 's essentially a compilation of unreleased tracks from the last year 's studio experiments . |
| 4 | I do it without premeditation , as naturally and wearily as if I did it every night . |
| 5 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 6 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |
| 7 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 8 | Presumably this act was meant to signify the unleashing of chaos , except that instead of being summarily tossed to the ground , the bookcase was lowered as gently as delicately as if it were a fragile ceramic from antiquity . |
| 9 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 10 | It is also relevant here that the story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one , albeit in moralized versions , as an exemplum , rather than simply as a fabliau . |
| 11 | to combine the Administrative and Benefits functions at this stage as requested by NALGO rather than later as intended ; |
| 12 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 13 | Thus , alcohol and other mood altering substances come to be seen in reality as mood-altering chemicals rather than solely as a perceived solution to problems . |
| 14 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 15 | The fact that central government was now beginning to regard Siberia as an integral part of Russia as a whole , rather than merely as a colonial appendage , was marked by the abolition in 1763 of the Siberian Department ( Sibirskii prikaz ) , the central state bureau which had , with a brief interruption under Peter the Great , been directly responsible for the governance and administration of the territory since 1637 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At a commonsense level , therefore , the professional development of teachers , individually or collectively as part of the social system of the school , appears crucially important to the improvement of educational provision . |
| 18 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 19 | Other relatives and professionals collude in ignoring what they in fact know-that these people have lived together sexually , domestically and financially as if they were married . |
| 20 | Living in such a cloistered world such operations are never looked at objectively but simply as a means of gaining personal kudos for one small group within an agency . |
| 21 | In their care , the gardens have continued to be maintained excellently but rather as a commercial undertaking : there are innovations in the form of an expensive gift shop and tea-room — developments of which I doubt Osgood would have approved . |
| 22 | She was seated in her chair like a cold stone statue , her face turned upward and away as an indication of her contempt . |
| 23 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 24 | Lewis 's broadcasts during the war were in three series , and they were written up ( published more or less as spoken over the air ) as Broadcast Talks ( 1942 ) , Christian Behaviour ( 1943 ) and Beyond Personality ( 1944 ) . |
| 25 | But the expectation is that the resolution will pass , more or less as drafted . |
| 26 | He recommended extension more or less as planned to Market Harborough , round the lower contours of the Lias upland blocking Foxton from the Welland Valley . |
| 27 | And if you have no improvement plan then you just drift doing things more or less as you have always done them . |
| 28 | If you want to leave the pond more or less as it is , then a kid 's fishing net is the best way to remove the dead leaves without disturbing too much sediment . |
| 29 | Taking orders in this way I do not have to lay out large sums on yarn ; the cones can be bought more or less as required . |
| 30 | In 1977 ( more or less as in 1969 ) only 12 per cent had considered this , and only a very small proportion of these had done anything about trying to get some type of credit not actually used in the end by them . |