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 | . 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 . |
| 3 | The parent avoids responding in anger or punitively as the child is out of the way ( Herbert 1981 ; Forehand and McMahon 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The voting shall be by show of hands , or otherwise as the Executive Committee may determine . |
| 5 | Right Item four crime prevention A L O work what is the way forward or backward as the case may be Sergeant |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is worth noting , however , that just as the teaching force moved from co-operation to conflict , so did many of the local authorities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She felt Fand grip her arm ; the white face turned , whiter than before as a gust of fire passed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact I 'm going to comment on every aspect and section of the mag , and so as the trend goes : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And only as the operation of the Acts was perceived did a groundswell of opposition develop . |
| 19 | Parental and public anxiety grew , and especially as the size of the eleven-plus group expanded without any corresponding increase in grammar-school provision . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 24 | And Just as the Gospel had concentrated on Jerusalem the location of God 's great exodus for man , so the Acts shows the mission spreading out from that centre in ever widening circles . |
| 25 | Once out of the bustling grimy city and on our way we motored into the heart of rural England , through expanses of green rolling hills with the odd kestrel hovering by the roadside looking for prey , and just as the sun began to set we passed Stonehenge , the strange stone monoliths eerily silhouetted against the dusky pink horizon . |
| 26 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |
| 27 | And just as the MOD has chosen to let such production lines be closed down , rather than pay contractors for the cost of mothballing them , so too has it cast a cold eye on the plight of domestic defence electronics companies . |
| 28 | And just as the train gave wayto the motor car , so the countryside life chronicled in ’ Twenty-four Square Miles ’ was changing forever . |
| 29 | He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’ |
| 30 | Columba sent one of his companions into the water , and just as the creature opened its jaws for its second course , Columba with a wave of his hand banished it : Nessie , all humps and coils , fled whining . |