Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 2 | There are fragments of kouroi from Delos as early or nearly as Nikandre 's girl , but before we go on to these a few more general remarks are in place . |
| 3 | There was an element of truth in these comments and before charting the history of the regiment he raised , it is worth examining the background of this remarkable man , later known to members of the regiment either as ‘ Colonel David ’ or simply as DS . |
| 4 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 5 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 6 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 7 | In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position . |
| 8 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 9 | Meopham may be nearer to France than to most of Britain but its residents cheered long and loud as Mr Major derided a United States of Europe and the prospect of a Labour Government at the EC table : ‘ Brussels wags its finger and over on its back rolls the Labour Party saying ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 10 | Xinhua ( the New China News Agency ) reported on March 3 that Xu Jiatun , who had been replaced in February 1990 as head of Xinhua 's Hong Kong branch and thus as China 's de facto representative in Hong Kong [ see p. 37185 ] , had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and had lost his seat on the party 's central advisory commission for " deserting the party and the people " and going abroad without permission . |
| 11 | And just as IBM has failed accurately to perceive the power of the customers ' unions , it has underestimated the importance of lessors and publishers . |
| 12 | Possibly it was dismissed as the work of an eccentric ; and just as Henry Eliot received no reply , I have no doubt that Eliot himself remained in ignorance of its existence , unless Theresa later mentioned it to him . |
| 13 | ‘ Elements of competence ’ may be equated with SCOTVEC ‘ outcomes ’ and just as SCOTVEC outcomes are grouped to give modules or units , ‘ elements ’ are also grouped by the Lead Body to give units . |
| 14 | A law of nature was the last word ; and just as God could not break a law of logic ( by making something both red and green all over , for example ) , so it was felt that He could not break a law of nature . |
| 15 | And just as Koestler the man seemed devoid of small talk , so too all the writings that followed were pertinent and direct , never trivial or sloppy . |
| 16 | The Welsh international has played out of his skin throughout the FA Cup campaign and just as John Byrne 's goals have carried Sunderland through Norman 's saves have undoubtedly kept them in . |
| 17 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 18 | Mr Rumback had been asleep slumped over his desk and just as Endill removed the last screw he awoke with a start . |
| 19 | And just as Einstein 's work involved a drastic revision of accepted ideas about space and time , mass and energy , velocity and movement , Barth 's necessitated a comparable rethinking of established views both of God and of creation in general and man in particular . |
| 20 | Additionally , only the most senior officers in an authority ( not all principal officers and above as Widdicombe proposed ) will be banned from being members of other main councils or being active politically . |
| 21 | It may not , however , do so as automatically and unhealthily as Jameson 's idea of postmodernism as a ‘ pathological symptom ’ suggests . |
| 22 | This triangle is established by finding the intersection B of circles centred on O and A with radii in the same proportion to and respectively as OA is to . |
| 23 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared correctly in one instance , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 24 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared as Al-Haddad , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 25 | So , erm , and also as Joan pointed out if you 've got four , if two of you want one thing and two another , there is n't a casting vote , so erm , five might be better . |
| 26 | She could easily have wept as messily and uselessly as Monica . |
| 27 | Britain , however , had fought to impede European agreements requiring catalytic converters on cars and even as London 's traffic slowed to pre-First World War speeds , planned to build vast new roads and to cut rail services . |
| 28 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 29 | ‘ And even as America 's administrations change , America 's fundamental interests do not and the greatest gesture of goodwill any nation can make towards me is to continue their full cooperation during this period with our one President , George Bush . ’ |
| 30 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |