Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phillis 's choice of Corydon is an affirmation of a traditional social order even as this imposes limits with which Leapor struggles elsewhere in her poetry : |
| 2 | The journalist and geographer Percy F. Martin visited Latin America just as this process was reaching a great peak in the early years of this century . |
| 3 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |
| 4 | MAFF classifies part-time farms arbitrarily as those requiring less than 250 standard man days ( smd ) work per annum , even though many of them in reality are full time , providing the sole income of the farmer . |
| 5 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 6 | But when anomalous cards were introduced , such as a red Ace of Spades , then , at first , nearly all subjects initially identified such cards incorrectly as some normal card . |
| 7 | This curtailed global fund switching within overseas banks especially as most countries introduced exchange control regulations . |
| 8 | Jimmy Dean , that hoary old Fifties icon , became a necrophiliac fantasy for 14-year-old Malteser chompers everywhere as some bobby soxed nymphette did a gravity-defying dance with a Dean look-no-a-bit-like in a recreated picture palace . |
| 9 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing now as another . |
| 10 | Twenty years later as many of you will remember Save The Children launched its stop polio campaign which in turn led to polio prevention becoming an integral part of world wide immunisation programmes . |
| 11 | THE Chancellor promised a new era for British Rail last night just as this steam train became the last to run into London . |
| 12 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 13 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |