Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists , for example , often work with theories which stipulate that human economic behaviour is motivated by rationality , more or less conceived as the maximisation of means to ends . |
| 2 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 3 | Clause 11(b) is so far-ranging that an alert professional insurance adviser would probably need some explanation of the likely liability of the haulier ‘ howsoever or whensoever caused as a result of or arising out of the supply to the client by the company of drivers ’ . |
| 4 | The losses involved in retirement are often either not foreseen , or not recognized as a problem . |
| 5 | Such consensus was originally explained as the product of a distinct personality which members of the police either possessed before coming to the force or quickly develop as a result of the job ( for a survey of the literature on this see Adlam 1981 ) . |
| 6 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 7 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 8 | Stress in the nurse can erode the nurse-patient relationship , or even act as a barrier to forming one . |
| 9 | Last autumn , Mr Alton threatened to quit or even stand as an independent after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 10 | Something else that is added to marzipan , or even used as an almond substitute , is apricot kernels . |
| 11 | The Model Law is , as its name implies , a model which can be adopted in its entirety , adapted , or simply used as the basis for ideas ; it has no legal force as such . |
| 12 | If you have any details of , are related to , employ or indeed work as a scientist , in whatever capacity , please let know . |
| 13 | The two central , baggy-suited dancers , Lynne Bristow and William Trevitt , either mirror each others ' movements ( the old man perhaps communing with his diary ) or else dance as a couple ( the man reliving past relationships ) . |
| 14 | It was they who would decide whether such rites should be prohibited as too economically wasteful , or else encouraged as a possible attraction to the future tourist industry . |
| 15 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 16 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 17 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 18 | Ever since , it has remained a popular favourite — surely the most popular of all major orchestral work by a native Englishman , and widely regarded as the very essence of the spirit of England . |
| 19 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 20 | A perfectly rational case can be made for the merchant to be carefully and conspicuously established as the innocent and undeserving victim of a conspiracy between his wife and the monk . |
| 21 | CBP100 may correspond to ICR and thereby function as a repressor of the cAMP response in UF9 cells . |
| 22 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 23 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 24 | One of the earliest patent applications for a stunt kite was that filed in December 1928 for H.De Haven in the USA and eventually sold as the ‘ Air-o-bian ’ fighting kite , with claims for ‘ loops dives and climbs . |
| 25 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |
| 26 | He zoomed to save height , heard the cackle of machine-guns , skidded round in a savage , 180-degree turn , and instinctively ducked as a bright blue Pflaz hurtled over his head . |
| 27 | Until the 1840s the supply of coal from the area to London was tightly and effectively controlled as a virtual monopoly . |
| 28 | King Henry himself , with the third army , struck due west from Shrewsbury for Welshpool , strongly garrisoned and lavishly provisioned as an advanced base . |
| 29 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 30 | The subsequent discovery of the endorphins and encephalins , hormones in the brain that act like morphine and so act as a natural analgesic , and their implication in the action of acupuncture , provided further theoretical explanation for its efficacy . |