Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] as [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lessons of such experiences as NADP/GMTS and MESOL seem to be that the issues are as much about targeting and fully funding as about elitism . |
| 2 | Economic historians , in contrast to economists , are wholly concerned with the explanation of events in the real world over real time and in which irrationality and inconsistency , arising from imperfect knowledge or blind prejudice , are frequently dominant elements which can not be assumed away by means of such abstractions as ceteris paribus ( other things being equal ) and rational time . |
| 3 | The modern ceremony contains only vestiges of the original Latin in such phrases as in absentia , for candidates graduating in their absence and honoris causa , applied to honorary degrees . |
| 4 | With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying . |
| 5 | I found by adapting that approach erm I 've been able to help clients in such areas as er tax saving or making their money work that little bit harder for them . |
| 6 | Er maybe heating rivets or putting in rivets , until such times as er you were deemed fit to become a member in apprentice squad . |
| 7 | The existence of putative tissue-specific splicing factors in muscle cells has gained support particularly through work on such genes as α-tropomyosin ( 19 ) and troponin T ( 20 ) which are known to produce tissue-specific and developmentally regulated isoforms . |