Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent past informs the post/modern , even or especially as the latter is changing our understanding of that past . |
| 2 | These changes in the subject matter of international law , in the participants in international activities , and in the arenas within which the participants perform have exposed the inadequacies of the bilateral model for the accommodation of third parties , either as individual members of the international community or collectively as the international community as a whole . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S dairy industry must prepare for likely cutbacks of 20pc or more as the European Community moves to eliminate distorting production subsidies . |
| 4 | It seems unsound , then , to dismiss the rule as a convenient summary of the theory underlying several specific torts which had existed long before 1868 , or even as the old cattle-trespass rule raised to a high power . |
| 5 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 6 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 7 | Soon the forest closed around her , so dense and dark in places that even as the new day broke she imagined herself still to be in a midnight realm . |
| 8 | And so as the Soviet President left Moscow , shaking hands with Politburo members , he leaves behind a political challenge and an economic crisis ; it threatens everything he 's fought for . |
| 9 | As society changed further , and especially as the political independence of the courts within which the poets worked was weakened and finally lost , the social relations changed again , and the literary organization became at once more specialized and more socially disconnected . |
| 10 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 11 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 12 | History turns the page , and just as the Seventies really begin in 1969 , so the Eighties really start in 1979 . |
| 13 | And just as the ethical perspective of Stoicism was shaped by the slave-status of some of its principal proponents , so the ethical perspective of women has evolved within a framework of powerlessness to affect external events — even the lives of her own children within the family structure — and powerlessness to resist the inexorable internal cycle of obtrusive biological change , with the social and economic concomitants of that change that are absent in the case of the more modulated maturing and ageing processes of men . |
| 14 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |
| 15 | A few more days , a bit more luck and it will be hi ho Silver and away as the Lone Ranger had it . |
| 16 | He adored Perdita , but Ricky was his great love , and gradually as the ugly little dog limped after him , barking encouragement during practice chukkas , and even hitching a lift on the back of a pony in order not to be separated , Ricky succumbed totally to his charms . |
| 17 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 18 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 19 | After the two boys left the farmhouse , it was searched as systematically and thoroughly as the other houses . |
| 20 | Council has rightly , and appropriately as the new millennium approaches , committed us , the profession , to an act of faith . |
| 21 | And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act . |
| 22 | He emerged from the frostbitten earth as mysteriously and magically as the transitory rare flowers ; and he continued to move mysteriously — you left him under a coat and he reappeared in a drawer — all that winter . |
| 23 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 24 | Hence , class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society . |
| 25 | Nizan 's refusal to empathise fully with his fictional characters was consequently envisaged not as part of a global strategy to adapt the novel to the demands of contemporary social experience , but rather as the ideological inability of a communist novelist to engage in a complicity judged by Sartre to be a fundamental aspect of the novelist 's art . |
| 26 | Most artists use graphite , but only as the preliminary means to a further end , for a simple sketch to then cover with paint . |
| 27 | Most artists use graphite , but only as the preliminary means to a further end , for a simple sketch to then cover with paint . |
| 28 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 29 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 30 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |