Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The view of political parties as simply organizations for winning political power is clearly only a caricature . |
2 | This will produce different responses as both people and animals around her may react differently to each ‘ phase ’ . |
3 | Streetwise Intermediate explores such subjects as how children acquire their first language ; gestures ; and varieties of English . |
4 | They have studied an even wider variety of aspects of social life , from such matters as how people avoid bumping into each other in the street to topics as wide-ranging as the causes of the rise of capitalism . |
5 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
6 | This meant that schools received standard sums as either Major or Minor awards , regardless of differences in the scale of need between schools in either category . |
7 | But the older MPs from these areas saw these efforts as merely concessions to the Nationalists . |
8 | Do you take one of these vitamins as well mum ? |
9 | On the other hand , some archaeologists dismiss all leys as merely chance alignments without proper statistical investigation . |
10 | Instrumentalists regard administrative elites as simply functionaries who make policy according to the rational interests of the capitalist class . |
11 | She has er , she 's got very wide feet as well Nora has |
12 | This is the key domain of the calculating , rationalist attitude , obsessed with time , which sees other individuals as merely partners in a transaction , rather than individuals in their own right . |
13 | Not on that sort of thing but other things as well sort of thing and I do n't wan na I 'd like to know . |