Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because companies pay taxes according to how well they did the previous year , the deficit tends to be deepest just as we come out of recession . |
| 2 | Changes in social and commercial conditions , and changes in the moral values of the community , mean that the Courts will not always find the same reasons for the enforcement of promises to be good today as their forbears did ; equally it is likely that they will often find good reasons for the enforcement of promises where their predecessors did not . |
| 3 | ‘ It had to be light so as not to pull the fabric around but something like polystyrene would have fallen apart . ’ |
| 4 | The former assumption says that language behaviour in the classroom has to be natural so as to conform to the naturalness of language use : the latter assumption says that classroom behaviour has to be natural in conformity with natural processes of language learning . |
| 5 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 6 | Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress . |