Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers . |
| 2 | You should not be tempted by the price alone as well-chosen lilies will give you many years of pleasure . |
| 3 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 4 | That is whether a report prepared by an employee valuer without due care and skill is a breach of contract by the society so as to constitute a ground of complaint within paragraph 1 ( a ) Part III to Schedule 12 . |
| 5 | As has been said , a decision was made to abandon high-order averaging by the instrument so as to obtain a full record of the variations in measurement . |
| 6 | He was also alleged to have dragged or thrown their sister by the neck so as to cause bruising to the upper arm and neck . |
| 7 | It would be even more grimly appropriate for Saatchi to be swallowed by the French just as Mrs Thatcher lost her struggle to prevent the pound being swallowed into the European Monetary System . |
| 8 | The arrival of each vendor is greeted by the crowd rather as the appearance of a man with a sackful of rice would be greeted in a Kurdish refugee camp in midwinter . |
| 9 | It was seen by the father solely as manipulative behaviour aimed at him and his wife . |