Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Key technical issues are : whether the operational systems such as payroll can be developed quickly , despite application backlogs , and changed easily as requirements inevitably change ; whether personal computing software is available to set up your Personnel Information System quickly and flexibly without direct recourse to computer professionals , allowing flexible ad hoc reporting and rapid response to continually changing requirements ; whether summaries of this information can be extracted to enable planning , monitoring , controlling and modelling applications to be carried out by the personnel planners . |
| 2 | Not enclosing any part into a particular hand , but all as one man , working together and feeding together as sons of one father , members of one family … |
| 3 | His successors eventually lost all authority , even in the town , and survived merely as puppets in the hands of ruthless , ambitious nobles who fought to overthrow their rivals and to gain control of the disintegrating kingdom . |
| 4 | I chatted to a Dublin-bound nurse in the seat beside me , and looked out as lakes , rivers and deeply-furrowed potato patches flashed by . |
| 5 | By early November , however , prices had tumbled to $1,603.50 a tonne ( for immediate delivery ) , and fell steadily as stocks rose to a record 315,600 tonnes in December . |
| 6 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |