Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate . |
2 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
3 | They are more like shadows in the forest which enable us to see the contour of the trees to bring them together as the forces of darkness is to obliterate both the wood and the trees . |
4 | Each region has a director and all the regional directors meet together as the Branches Committee . |
5 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
6 | So as the numbers that you add on get one less so the answers get one less . |
7 | She put it down , all the same , on the counter , but we did n't talk much longer as the revellers from the rear began coming through to go to the bedrooms . |
8 | Conversation trickled away as the Women 's Word public relations officer , a bouncy young woman in a tight bodice , said a few welcoming phrases and introduced Linda Finch . |
9 | James Coats , junior ( 1841–1912 ) , was a member of the Paisley family of industrialists J. & P. Coats , whom most of us know best as the makers of sewing cotton but he appears to have made the presentation of these libraries Personally and not through a trust established in connection with the firm . |
10 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
11 | In his books The Glaciers of the Alps ( 1860 ) , and Hours of Exercise in the Alps ( 1871 ) , we find him describing daredevil climbs , astonishingly ill-prepared by modern standards ; but also making a serious study of how glaciers move , which in 1872 came out more formally as The Forms of Water . |
12 | ‘ If it should turn out to be true that God did intend males to exhibit strength in leadership roles and females to excel more as the guardians of society 's emotional resources , why should this be viewed ipso facto as an evil arrangement ? ’ |
13 | ANGUISH : It 's all too much for one dealer yesterday as the futures market is hit with its busiest day involving deals worth £243billion |
14 | That was the strong inside bet from Central Park yesterday as the champions angrily denied they had made a move for Sydney St George coach Brian Smith to succeed Monie . |
15 | Based on the activation by these proteins of the receptor encoded by neu , the neuronal pattern of in vivo expression , and the names already given to these proteins ( Neu differentiation factor and heregulins ) , we name the gene neuregulin and refer to the proteins collectively as the neuregulins . |
16 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
17 | They were known as the Reformers , and later as the Puritans . |
18 | The corner of Darlington Town Hall known affectionately as the Rogues Gallery where photographs of former civic dignitaries are displayed has long lacked just one mug shot to make its collection complete . |
19 | The company itself is treated not merely as a person , the subject of rights and duties , but also as a res , the object of rights and duties . |
20 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
21 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
22 | The CUMS has retained its name but now functions mainly as a women refugee coordinating body , particularly in Mexico and Nicaragua . |
23 | The Greek word axioma originally meant " request " ; the reader is requested to accept the axioms unquestioningly as the rules of the game . |
24 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
25 | But Norwich manager Mike Walker remained coy about the destination of the Championship saying : ‘ It would be stupid to say we will win it but we have as good as chance now as the others . |
26 | ‘ My game is suited to doubles because I return well , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ but my priority is to do well as a singles player . ’ |
27 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
28 | This is a side of Russell which people perhaps do n't know about , erm so well as the others , so if I may , I 'll read some passages and paraphrase it . |
29 | The planters built magnificent wedding-cake mansions , which are used nowadays as the offices of banks and insurance companies on Merida 's main avenue , and sent their children to school in New Orleans or Havana . |
30 | The origins of jawed vertebrates ( gnathostomes ) lie somewhere within the ranks of long-extinct jawless fishes , represented today as the lampreys and hagfishes . |