Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as philosophers and psychologists of the nineteenth century had to wrestle with an implicit mind — body problem , it was virtually impossible for evolutionists to tackle the evolution of higher mental processes of a distinctively human kind . |
| 2 | Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations . |
| 3 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 4 | But it was these same heads of kindreds and lords who were the major factor in ending feud and in maintaining order within local society ; and they were able to do so not as individuals but as men of power with powerful backing . |
| 5 | So both as givers and receivers of support , men and women normally are in very different positions and it is not surprising to find therefore that gender permeates all aspects of support structures . |
| 6 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 7 | In terms of conventional undergraduate courses , I see no great pressure for a further extension of the modular pattern , but so far as universities and colleges are concerned , I foresee an explosion in the modular approach at the Continuing Education level . |
| 8 | The teachers ' authority extends to the enforcement of school rules ( which a head teacher has authority to make under the articles of government of school and which may , unless they are unlawful — for example because of sex or race discrimination — be regarded as the ‘ law of the land ’ so far as pupils and parents are concerned ) . |
| 9 | Young people So far as children and young people are concerned , it is well recognized in historical work on the nineteenth century that the growth of state intervention to control the employment of children , and to establish and expand compulsory education , had the effect of altering the balance of obligations between parents and children . |
| 10 | So far as manufacturers and wholesalers are concerned the retailer is , above all , an outlet for their products , and an important source of market intelligence concerning customer buying habits and preferences . |
| 11 | ‘ We were so excited about a new life in a new house that we were drawn together again as friends and lovers and the Other Woman got left behind . ’ |
| 12 | And we cause the hunger and poverty , we , as the West , not necessarily as individuals because we insist on a lifestyle that acquires things and in doing that , er we 've subverted God . |
| 13 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 14 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 15 | They were all agreed that the provision of family allowances would enhance the status of women not only as mothers but as workers because ‘ it would strike at one of the main popular objections to ‘ equal pay for equal work ’ , i.e. the plea that a man requires a family wage whereas a woman requires only an individual subsistence wage ’ ( NUSEC , 1920 , p. 3 ) . |
| 16 | Ravenhill saw the revelations of medicine and eugenics pointing to a greater role for women , not only as mothers but as guardians of those aesthetic qualities which made for physical , intellectual and moral progress . |
| 17 | In particular , it examines when children begin to compare with others not only as individuals but also as members of groups . |
| 18 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |
| 19 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 20 | Conscripts were trained to a high pitch and could be called upon in war , not merely as reserves but as front-line troops . |
| 21 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 22 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 23 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 24 | ‘ We needed that performance today as a nation , not just as players or manager , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He knew those courts and gardens , not just as places and secret short cuts , but as a whole pattern of life and behaviour . |
| 26 | Common to these readings is the observation of fundamental connections and parallels between the merchant and the monk , not just as individuals but as representatives of late medieval culture in a very broad form : of economic and religious life . |
| 27 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 28 | In both the West Riding and the West Country women seem to have worked more often as weavers than has been assumed , especially towards the end of the century . |
| 29 | The shelling of the Muslim village of Konjevic Polje forced the soldiers , members of the 9th/12th Lancers , to look on helplessly as women and children were killed and injured . |
| 30 | GPs , therefore , both directly as fundholders and indirectly through their influence on the DHA , have greater power to shape the services their patients receive . |