Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he played excellently in our Championship year and although his confidence went completely after the punch at Ibrox , he ca n't be blamed totally as the whole defence ( except Dorigo in fairness ) did n't exactly help matters . |
| 2 | Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect . |
| 3 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 4 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , no one could claim that it was a united Cabinet and this was made worse as the everyday issues of government started to go wrong . |
| 6 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 7 | These days the term is used either as the first time you kick the ball AND its not on the ground , or even just that the ball is off the ground . |
| 8 | See also Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 ( insurance brokers ) , and also Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 : " … the character of a general medical practice is such that one who is employed therein as a medical assistant , necessarily acquires such a special and intimate knowledge of the patients of the business that the employers … are entitled to protect themselves against unfair competition on the servant 's part " , per Evershed J. |
| 9 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 10 | In Durham and Yorkshire it is known locally as the Upper Magnesian Limestone ( comprising the Hartlepool and Roker Dolomites and the Concretionary Limestone ) and the Kirkham Abbey Formation , respectively ( Smith 1980 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ) . |
| 11 | The approach described in this book needs to be adapted flexibly as no single approach will work alone and compromises must be made . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Following a long debate , the Federal Assembly on March 29 voted to resolve the issue of renaming the state ( known officially as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic since 1960 ) by a compromise , whereby the state would be referred to as the Czechoslovak Federative Republic in the Czech lands and the Czecho-Slovak Federative Republic in Slovakia . |
| 15 | When he first appeared he was known briefly as The Broken , referring to his christian name , and to the way he looked so grave , even grief-stricken sometimes in an odd way . |
| 16 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 17 | The people chosen will be acknowledged generally as the senior members of the party and there will be few surprises when the Cabinet is announced . |
| 18 | The results , while a useful management tool , should be viewed cautiously as no two jobs are identical and the statistics may make no allowance for special circumstances . |
| 19 | Quickly the English found it so , and considerable confusion developed there as the foremost horses stumbled and floundered and oncoming ranks piled up with the pressure of thousands behind . |
| 20 | the ‘ library of the future ’ or the ‘ virtual library ’ , taken broadly as the entire set of information resources and facilities , bringing in other stakeholders , such as computing centres , media centres , film and data archives , museums , electronic information providers , and telecommunication networks ; |
| 21 | Existing traction resources were trimmed severely as the new , more efficient types entered service . |
| 22 | the ‘ library ’ taken narrowly as the traditional collection of books , journals and a wide range of other media , with its existing set of facilities , operations and services ; |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | This does not mean that democracy is conceived only as the political form assumed by the rule of the bourgeoisie , even though it is historically an achievement of the bourgeoisie , a real advance upon the preceding forms of government and a ‘ progressive ’ feature of capitalism . |
| 25 | It was a delicious quirk of fate that this situation should have arisen even as the legal action with Sting loomed on the near horizon . |
| 26 | Mr Guillermo ‘ Billy ’ Ford , a vice-presidential Adoc candidate , was also severely bloodied and beaten even as the other Adoc leader , Mr Ricardo Arias Calderon , condemned the cancellation of the poll as ‘ an unbearable mockery of the will of the Panamanian people ’ . |
| 27 | " Antiquity " for philological purposes was conceived primarily as the two ancient languages and the literature written in them ; and its " study " was , generally speaking , the province of learned individuals concerned , above all , with the restoration and exegesis of the ancient texts . |
| 28 | Thus , the correlation between disaffection and bad schooling should never be treated lightly as the long term consequences in society could be devastating . |
| 29 | In what was described locally as the worst social unrest since the US military invasion of December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , demonstrators clashed with heavily armed police on May 5-11 in the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 30 | This process was initiated just as the economic crisis began to make itself felt in Spain . |