Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Labour leadership was overwhelmingly defeated yesterday as the conference demanded big pension increases . |
| 2 | If in fact a charge is already registered then as the land certificate is already notionally deposited at the registry no difficulty would appear to occur and registration can take place . |
| 3 | Bosses are always equipped exactly as the rest of the unit , except that they are permitted one magic item in addition . |
| 4 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 5 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 6 | But personal growth is also shown here as the character of Pip begins to change even before he was given the money and it continues to change after all the money is gone . |
| 7 | Until recently , emphasis was most commonly placed on the object as gift in the tradition of Mauss , but some consideration is now also being given to what is too often taken merely as the gift 's antithesis , that is the commodity . |
| 8 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 9 | In the middle of the river , a little upstream from Hendaye , is the Île des Faisans , sometimes known also as the Île de la Conferênce , famous for belonging to neither France nor Spain but to both . |
| 10 | Although they are followed by two relative clauses ( lines 24 and 25 ) , they are not as closely linked syntactically as the earlier examples cited above . |
| 11 | Pardy had certainly behaved recklessly as the law understood that term . |