Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 2 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 3 | Rather than rejecting objectionable discourses past and present , this approach entails an unstable coexistence with that which it contests , and it manifests this textually as the parodic adulteration , manipulation , or ‘ doctoring ’ of another 's language . |
| 4 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 5 | In the same way , the contrasting development of the Western European societies may also become comprehensible only as the outcome of distinctive political , religious or other forces working within a particular mode of production . |
| 6 | We aim to reduce this steadily as the recovery gets under way . |
| 7 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 8 | The organisers of the match , which is sponsored by The Times newspaper , will also be anxious that he does not go two down as the public may start to write off his chances . |
| 9 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 10 | He was to find himself repeating this often as the days went by . |
| 11 | In any case the financial penalties of moving are sufficient to deter many especially as the inferior wages and working conditions in small firms are widely appreciated . |
| 12 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |