Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that several of the boys were active members of the National Front , for example , had an all too direct bearing on how they positioned themselves as narrators of the fight , even though they were anxious to characterize their role as merely voicing public opinion on the estate . |
| 2 | This would have the two-fold effect of lowering pupil achievement as well as adversely affecting staff career prospects . |
| 3 | It , it achieves just as much as softly doing hop skip and a jump . |
| 4 | Rather than seeing political struggle as ultimately reflecting class struggle , the liberal tradition credits the leading actors in the historical drama with an independence and causative importance of their own . |
| 5 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |