Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 2 | There are , in fact several others but , for various reasons which I shall attempt to explain , I do not feel that they are always quite as effective — or indeed as safe — as the use of the hypnotic state . |
| 3 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 4 | This chapter addresses the problem of handling these fleas , not as extraordinary ideas , nor even as physical entities , but as units of information . |
| 5 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 6 | Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 8 | Naturally the physical bases that are the cause of defective sight remain unchanged ; measured visual acuity is unlikely to be improved , but children can be positively helped to pay attention to visual stimuli , and can be given motivating visual tasks in optimum conditions that help them to enjoy the experience of using their vision as fully and effectively as possible . |
| 9 | But it is possible — and equally convincing — to argue precisely the reverse : that the most advanced companies recognise the value of the strategic use of consultants generally — including headhunters — in running a business as efficiently and effectively as possible . |
| 10 | In general , DCSLs attempt to complete the proposal and book selection phases in Minor schools as quickly and effectively as possible , in the knowledge that similar processes in their Major schools are likely to be more lengthy , complex and demanding of staff time and resources . |
| 11 | The efficiency of biological effluent treatment depends purely on whether or not the bugs do their job properly , digesting as much carbon material as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 12 | ‘ The large number of non-farming visitors to the show gives an opportunity to show how research scientists are helping farmers protect the environment and avoid pollution as well as producing food as efficiently and economically as possible , ’ said WBPS spokeswoman Pat Twigg . |
| 13 | ‘ Si arrangia , ’ says the Neapolitan , living precariously and unofficially as car-park attendant , porter , vendor , labourer , pimp , pick-pocket on his city 's chaotic streets . |
| 14 | It will rarely be as convenient , and rarely as cheap ( see table 6.2 ) , as private transport . |
| 15 | In particular , a payment is regarded as a voluntary payment and so as irrecoverable in the following circumstances : |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , and perhaps as senior man you might like to arrange something for his funeral , a wreath , represent the Section , that sort of thing . |
| 17 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 18 | Without these two measures , and especially as structural engineers are not involved in the inspection of buildings on the building site , one is left with a feeling of disquiet with regard to the long-term integrity of structures using sealed-in timber components . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh come now , Bill , Oxford senior common rooms are full of people quite as untidy and generally as odd as Gerhard . |
| 20 | An essential part of the research process is to be able to locate the data required as quickly and easily as possible . |
| 21 | On May 2 Arpad Göncz was elected by 339 votes to 31 as its Speaker and thus as interim President of the Hungarian Republic , pending a decision by the Assembly on how presidential elections should be held later in the year . |
| 22 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 23 | Thus there seems a prima facie risk that social work intervention will increasingly be characterised by recourse to legal justification , and that , regardless of the debate about whether compulsion is on the increase , the public care of children will be further identified with compulsory removal and thus as antipathetic to family care . |
| 24 | However , it will really be the New Moon on the 19th which provides you will a new romantic interest and just as long as you do n't try to manipulate , control or dominate , you could well be on cloud nine . |
| 25 | One parent families are not a static group and just as certain circumstances bring them into existence , so with others they may disappear . |
| 26 | We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible . |
| 27 | Keep going forward ? attacking all the time ; try to overwhelm him as quickly and finally as possible . |
| 28 | When the Liberals returned to power he held office , first as comptroller to the household ( 1905–9 ) , then as under-secretary of state for India ( 1909–10 ) , and finally as parliamentary ( patronage ) secretary to the Treasury and Liberal chief whip ( 1910–12 ) . |
| 29 | Minimum vacuum standards are used by most of the tube manufacturers today because they need tubes made as quickly and cheaply as possible . |
| 30 | In a more recent book he suggests that the gospel was also made available as widespread and cheaply as possible by a novel process . |