Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of the young workers interviewed had no intention of remaining in agriculture — they hoped to seek more lucrative employment , mainly in the building industry , as lorry drivers , as garage mechanics or perhaps as engineering workers in local factories . |
| 2 | DEATH AS LIFE 'S END ( the Doctor ) , as a crime ( the Detective ) , or just as butchery . |
| 3 | Regular meetings with other health visitors for information purposes or purely as support groups can help you to combat the isolation sometimes described by health visitors working in both rural and inner city communities . |
| 4 | Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view . |
| 5 | There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire . |
| 6 | Unfamiliar , clearly posed , these problems are made accessible not quite as history nor yet as fantasy but with something of the acceptable plainness of fairy tale challenges . |
| 7 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 8 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |
| 9 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 10 | And just as JET was too large for any single European country to build , its successors may also be collaborative ventures , perhaps involving even more countries . |
| 11 | And just as carbon has very special properties , which make i so suited to the task — so too does water . |
| 12 | And just as sterling was welcomed as a junior partner to the dollar as an international currency , so too was British aid in resistance to any threats to the Bretton Woods agreements and the liberal international economic order as a whole . |
| 13 | BUXTON 4th International Kite Fly For Peace Up , up and away as kite flyers world wide unite in their quest for peace . |
| 14 | Wherever he went , first as prior at Canterbury , then as abbot of Peterborough , and finally as bishop of Rochester , Ernulf was associated with the revival of an interest in pre-Conquest traditions — with the revival of Anglo-Saxon liturgical practices at Canterbury , with the collection of Old English laws at Rochester , and perhaps with the renewed interest in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Peterborough . |
| 15 | They act partly as stabilisers , like gyroscopes , and partly as sense organs presumably telling the fly of the attitude of its body in the air and the direction in which it is moving . |
| 16 | The notion that the surface thrusts might flatten at depth was voiced long ago ( Hayes 1891 ) , and received support from Rich ( 1934 ) , Rodgers ( 1949 ) who introduced the term ‘ thin-skinned ’ — and others , and also as time went on from drilling in the Valley and Ridge province , where roughly 1000 mostly shallow wells have been drilled . |
| 17 | Thus in this particular book , while trying to present as fully and clearly as space allowed the teaching of the Scriptures about the Holy Spirit , I would have been failing to meet the aim of the series had I neglected the controversial issues of the baptism , the gifts and the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | Nothing confirms the stature of artists more clearly than the way they tackle the potboilers of the repertory , and here as soloist in the Grieg Piano Concerto we had another artist who can be unpredictable , sometimes nervily so , Radu Lupu . |
| 19 | But police said children had ignored them and even as rescue workers left the scene they had to warn two more boys who were about to go out on to the ice . |
| 20 | This certainly offers a fruitful way to see , say , the impact of early rock 'n' roll which one intuitively senses as ‘ radical ’ , yet which from the start , and increasingly as time went by , made use of traditional elements of musical and lyric form and content , and subsisted within the nexus of capitalist production processes . |
| 21 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 22 | " The stream mysterious glides beneath , " Melinda quoted , " green as a dream and deep as death . " |
| 23 | In 1760 he was employed , first as carpenter and then as clerk of works , at the building of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire , under Robert Adam [ q.v. ] , an experience which constituted his architectural education . |
| 24 | She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman . |
| 25 | First as a diplomat , later as Foreign Minister in 1959-66 and then as Chancellor he shaped the foreign policy priorities of post-war Austria . |
| 26 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 27 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 28 | Walling , first as Secretary and then as President , of the Commission on Continental Erosion of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences . |
| 29 | After the Civil War ended in 1939 Ibárruri lived in the Soviet Union and was leader of the PCE in exile , first as secretary-general in 1942 and then as president from 1960 . |
| 30 | It grew in two ways : initially , as more people got TV sets , and then as programme hours increased . |