Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 2 | The former opens with David an outlaw , fleeing from Saul , and ends with the death of Jezebel , Jehu 's brutality , and finally Jehoash as King of Judah . |
| 3 | They still often continue , in the capacity of Custos Rotulorum , to be the senior magistrate in the county and usually sit as chairman of the committee which recommends the names of new justices of the peace to the Lord Chancellor , a partial explanation for the dull , middle-class nature of the magistracy . |
| 4 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 5 | In a hypothesis that bears some similarity to ours , McKenzie and O'Nions suggested that the lithosphere underlying continents might detach itself , sink to a convective boundary layer , and ultimately rise as mantle plumes . |