Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit .
2 There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup .
3 The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead .
4 Well ca n't , he said look have a word , and he said to me , you know , do you mind if we do like eight till eleven o'clock as a wedding party
5 I offer this merely as a piece of information .
6 Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility .
7 I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life .
8 As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past .
9 Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively .
10 However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity .
11 The Russian pulled Delaney back bodily by his legs , helping to get him further away as the arm with its vicious , razor-sharp ends , flailed wildly through the aperture .
12 Mr Zeman expects to become unemployed soon as a result of the sudden , unexplained decision to close his forecasting department in the economics institute where he works , but he denies that he is a martyr in the reformist cause .
13 But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about .
14 Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate .
15 When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ?
16 Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces .
17 It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage .
18 For the time being it was decided to retain Venturous mainly as a training ship until the DTI courses were started .
19 Vinyl floor tiles are squares of plastic composition , with added fillers and pigments , popular mainly as an economy floorcovering in heavy traffic areas , like the kitchen or hallway .
20 The Russian felt inadequate , but was persuaded that not doing the leg would just put him further behind as the crew developed experience .
21 Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative .
22 But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them .
23 I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance .
24 When part of the roof collapsed and flames rose half as high again as the manor house , the firefighters drew back and restricted their efforts to keeping the outbuildings of the farm damped down .
25 Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom .
26 Patients were randmly allocated to receive either the long acting somatostatin analogue octreotide ( n=121 ) or isotonic saline intravenously as a placebo ( n= 124 ) .
27 It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot .
28 Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall .
29 The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it .
30 Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text .
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