Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 3 | A constitutional assessment would be highly recommended particularly as thrush tends to be a recurrent or chronic problem — see Conditions Requiring Constitutional Therapy on page 137 . |
| 4 | Throughout , Sartre has nevertheless taken it ‘ for granted that such a totalisation is constantly developing both as History and as historical Truth ’ ( I , 822 ) . |
| 5 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 6 | He could only watch helplessly as Paula was hurled headfirst into the canoe floating nearby . |
| 7 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 8 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 9 | Because technical terms are genuinely a part of language ( and not intended simply as items in a dictionary ) , they ebb and flow , and grow and contract , and shift in connotation . |
| 10 | It is a sad reflection on the present state of constitutional monarchy in this country that one so driven to do his best for the good of mankind , as he sees it , should think , indeed know , that he can not do so as king . |
| 11 | Pieces are not seen only as individuals , but also as parts of larger patterns . |
| 12 | The RCM was not involved either as Sponsor or as provider of accommodation . |
| 13 | This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club . |
| 14 | Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour . |
| 15 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 16 | A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall . |
| 17 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Charlton and Grilly went on to play together as Palace 's full-backs for four seasons , and it was no coincidence that in two of them Palace made serious , if unavailing , attempts to restore 2nd Division status to Selhurst Park , finishing as runners-up in both 1928–29 and 1930–31 . |
| 19 | And yesterday the princess 's lower lip trembled and she nervously turned away as Sebastian sang the poignant opening lines of the 1989 hit , Right Here Waiting For You . |
| 20 | The galaxies are still flying apart as space continues to expand and carry them along with it . |
| 21 | When people write tutorials they usually do so as people who possess great knowledge about the subject they are discussing . |
| 22 | UK SHARE prices fell sharply yesterday afternoon , taking their cue from Wall Street , where stocks also slumped heavily as US investors took fright at President Clinton 's threatened tax increases and spending cuts . |
| 23 | The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets . |
| 24 | At least 43 per cent of those who served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 were either Dissenters or from Dissenting backgrounds , whilst persons from the Dissenting interest also figured prominently as holders of Bank stock and as directors of the New East India Company . |
| 25 | This Table ( Table 13 ) is also reproduced graphically as Figure 10 using 100% stacked bars ( chosen to make proportional comparisons easier ) . |
| 26 | This Table ( Table 13 ) is also reproduced graphically as Figure 10 using 100% stacked bars ( chosen to make proportional comparisons easier ) . |
| 27 | And now the quarrel was under its own impetus , and once again a trial seemed to be in progress , with both of them as accusers , but both figuring also as investigators of the lowest description , wretched hirelings , turning over the stones to find where the filth lay buried . |
| 28 | Above — middle left : Dressing for warmth is an important factor in St Andrews , but layering wool , cotton and silk also works well as winter moves into spring . |
| 29 | New content and emphasis is to be found in all subjects of the syllabus but radical changes ( most of them very typical of other syllabuses of the time ) included : earlier and more intensive teaching of English , the teaching of more Mathematics earlier ( and less computational arithmetic ) , the localisation of History and Civics syllabuses ( but with world affairs added in the upper classes ) , the introduction of a Science syllabus , with considerable time weighing , based on an ‘ experimental approach ’ and intended to integrate contents and approaches originally taught separately as Nature Study , Rural Science , General Science , Health Education and Gardening , and a revised , expanded , and considerably more africanised Music syllabus . |
| 30 | A descent of the western slope over rough ground leads to a confluence of streams that now goes forward as Hell Gill Beck , still forming the county boundary and being accompanied by a track as it heads south-west . |