Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 2 | In the spring you reap the harvest — or not as the case might be . |
| 3 | It is readily apparent that some courts , and some judges , have used the very ambiguity inherent in that dichotomy in an instrumental fashion ; the decision whether to label a part of the X factor as jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional is influenced by a judicial desire to intervene or not as the case may be . |
| 4 | We eat , we enjoy it or not as the case may be , and move on to the next thing . |
| 5 | ‘ If you can find the subjects for the verbs , then their objects , everything else will agree with them , or not as the case may be . ’ |
| 6 | This is a small scale ( 40 households ) qualitative study using extensive interviews to analyse how individuals construct their decisions and how couples negotiate them together ( or not as the case may be ) . |
| 7 | They know the tricks used by most singers and are expert in helping out or not as the case may be . |
| 8 | No , okay , well , I 'll put on erm , part four of the video now , of this same unorganised manager , and you can see how Richard Lewis went about trying to solve the problems of his managers , and see if you agree with them or not as the case may be . |
| 9 | . Security is like a game of chess , and our thieves are sort of like one move ahead of us , or vice-versa as the case might be . |
| 10 | The parent avoids responding in anger or punitively as the child is out of the way ( Herbert 1981 ; Forehand and McMahon 1981 ) . |
| 11 | The voting shall be by show of hands , or otherwise as the Executive Committee may determine . |
| 12 | Right Item four crime prevention A L O work what is the way forward or backward as the case may be Sergeant |
| 13 | It seems to follow that just as the notion of the meaning of a single sentence is indeterminate , so the notion of two sentences having the same meaning is indeterminate . |
| 14 | It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities . |
| 15 | Gillham continues to argue that just as the participant is protected from physical hurt by the parameters of ‘ it 's only a game ’ , so the same protection applies to psychological hurt . |
| 16 | Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car . |
| 17 | IT IS typical of the contrary nature of things that just as the impression grows that Rangers will progress inevitably to a higher plane and leave lesser sides to their own devices , along come Airdrie , all skint knees and sweat , to sow a couple of doubts . |
| 18 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |
| 19 | This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them . |
| 20 | This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power . |
| 21 | She felt Fand grip her arm ; the white face turned , whiter than before as a gust of fire passed . |
| 22 | Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions . |
| 23 | In fact I 'm going to comment on every aspect and section of the mag , and so as the trend goes : |
| 24 | The centre and focus of the whole is Jesus Christ himself — Jesus Chalst as ‘ true God and true man ’ , and so as the key both to the nature and activity of God and to the meaning and purpose of human existence . |
| 25 | The epidural was working and I could n't feel any real pain apart from the belt and I was lying there watching the monitor shoot up and down as the baby moved around . |
| 26 | And only as the operation of the Acts was perceived did a groundswell of opposition develop . |
| 27 | Parental and public anxiety grew , and especially as the size of the eleven-plus group expanded without any corresponding increase in grammar-school provision . |
| 28 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 29 | And just as the Spirit can not be equated with any property in man , equally it can not be regarded as the stuff of which the world is made , the comprehensive life principle which integrates the universe , as the Stoics maintained — a view which , through pagan philosophical influence , crept into the inter-testamental books of the Apocrypha . |
| 30 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |