Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] as [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were thus readily perceived as drags on the movement of the world towards greater political and economic freedom . |
| 2 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 3 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 4 | Of course , we want our students to know , understand and appreciate the things we are teaching , but these terms represent our intentions and are more suitably expressed as aims . |
| 5 | There are cases where variant readings of a single lexical form would seem to be more appropriately visualised as points on a continuum — a seamless fabric of meaning with no clear boundaries . |
| 6 | While these are primarily still seen as centres where teachers come to learn things , there are some instances where in small measure local curricula and local materials are beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | That covered interest rate parity is a variant of the international Fisher effect is very easily demonstrated as follows . |
| 8 | The contours of the objects are unbroken ( although they are occasionally slightly dislocated as has been seen ) and the modelling is more aggressively three-dimensional . |