Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 She slammed on her brakes and horn simultaneously as the jeep swerved to miss her , careering off the road and crashing into the gully alongside .
2 At once , the waiters began to reorganise the tables so that as many as possible could sit under the parasols and to hurry away the unused cushions and linen so as not to let them be soaked .
3 The poor poppets were being forced to attach lifelines to the upper cables and edge across as though their lives depended on it .
4 Older Marxist criminologies ( notably Bonger 's ) saw the link between economic conditions and crime precisely as lying in the culture of egoism which was stimulated by economic advance under capitalism ( Bonger , 1916 ) .
5 Some international trading agreements began , like cartels , to regulate markets and production regionally as well as nationally .
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