Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 2 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 3 | The tsar had good reason to listen to the advice of his financial experts , for not only were his finances in a desperate state but also he could not easily borrow on western markets so long as the empire 's accounting procedures remained inadequate . |
| 4 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 5 | When questioned in the witness box about the murder of Sergeant King , Vernage laughed out loud as the policeman 's widow , Monica , watched from the public gallery . |
| 6 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 7 | If , as Honoré Bouvet wrote , the soldier who acted qua soldier did so as the king 's deputy , all the more so did war 's new leaders act in his name . |
| 8 | Until recently , emphasis was most commonly placed on the object as gift in the tradition of Mauss , but some consideration is now also being given to what is too often taken merely as the gift 's antithesis , that is the commodity . |
| 9 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
| 10 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 11 | Just as the individual 's own make up ( as revealed in the House of Alma episode in II , IX ) is shown to contain elements which are potentially destructive , so it is implied that the civilised centre from which the knights supposedly originate is not impervious to the savage . |
| 12 | Just as the novel 's form is radical , so too is its content . |
| 13 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
| 14 | Just as the grammarian 's ‘ data ’ can not contain any variable phenomena , so the grammar must have categorial rules , and not ‘ rules ’ which are true only some of the time . |
| 15 | When at the beginning of Shakespearean Negotiations Greenblatt half-jokingly announces literature professors as ‘ salaried , middle-class shamans ’ there is actually a context being uncovered which , just as the anthropologist 's place in reading a culture , needs to be scrutinised . |
| 16 | Just as the worker 's ultimate weapon in his negotiation with management is his labour and the threat of its withdrawal , so my body was my ultimate and , to me , only , weapon in my bid for autonomy . |
| 17 | Just as the regime 's handling of industrial relations precluded the emergence of a moderate trade-union movement , so its political stance precluded the emergence of a reformist party with a stake in the status quo comparable to the German Socialist party . |
| 18 | First , goddesses offer comfort , just as the infant 's mother did : then male gods , or God , offer protection against external reality , as a father does for a child . |
| 19 | Just as the Earth 's gravitational force keeps the moon in orbit , so the moon exerts a force on the Earth . |
| 20 | She shook her head desperately as the man 's angry words rained down on her . |
| 21 | It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof . |
| 22 | Thus the various indications , airspeed , altitude , rate of climb , attitude and magnetic heading were seen to move exactly as the pilot 's instruments had operated as the accident approached . |
| 23 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 24 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
| 25 | As soon as the ideator 's feet hit the floor in the morning , he or she starts to generate countless possibilities . |
| 26 | Tattersalls will consider its position as soon as the Chancellor 's decision is definite . |
| 27 | As soon as the girl 's lungs fill , she screams again . |
| 28 | As soon as the man 's wallet was in his hand , the Doctor retreated hastily back to the car to peruse the contents . |
| 29 | So as soon as the farmer 's back was turned he slipped a shilling into the old boy 's palm — six pints o' beer at that time o' day' — and said to him : just yew have a go at it now , bo' . ’ |
| 30 | The article fails to emphasise the two most important tenets of safe prescribing of aminoglycosides — namely , that they should be used only if clinically justified and that they should be stopped as soon as the patient 's condition permits . |