Example sentences of "as [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the eighteen fifties and sixties , a generation after his death , the classical philologist 's separatism is something normal and generally unquestioned , and interplay between classical studies and life as a whole is an ideal as little in prospect as the " wholeness " of life itself . |
| 2 | Mr Grimes led the way round to the back door and ‘ the ash boy let them in , yawning horribly ’ ; soon Tom was ‘ in pitchy darkness , as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground ’ . |
| 3 | She was as individualistic as Rokovssky , as much in love with her own competence as he was with his . |
| 4 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 5 | The war was , therefore , as much in need of integration into psychoanalytic theory as were masochistic patients . |
| 6 | It may be based as Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 itself was , on the allegation that the defendant is being prosecuted more than once for what is in effect the same offence . |
| 7 | We now have pleasure in stating that in consideration of your services as the practical manager in working both our patents as above for transit by steamer or for any land purposes , we hereby agree to give you one third share of the patents above-mentioned , the same to take effect from this date . |
| 8 | It is , ‘ in consideration of your services as the practical manager in working our patents as above for transit by steamer . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand we can get round these difficulties , so that we can talk ( loosely ) as above without fear of any difficulties arising , by doing something which looks very much like substitution . |
| 10 | By this date Ludford was probably already employed at the collegiate church of St Stephen , Westminster , and on 30 September 1527 , as already in occupation of his offices there , he was confirmed in his appointment as verger of the chapel . |
| 11 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |
| 12 | By the time we reach the second set of interviews , where the question of retirement was clarified , only a quarter of the grandfathers are remembered as still at work in old age . |
| 13 | What has yet to become an accepted methodology in the study of public administration is a perception of organizations , including those in the public sector , as being themselves political systems.l Organization theory , drawing primarily as ever on evidence from private firms and corporations , offers political interpretations of the internal structures and decisionmaking of large-scale organizations which the study of public administration has yet to take up in any systematic manner ( Walsh et al. |
| 14 | The NCC has identified this habitat as urgently in need of protection since only about 3% remains . |
| 15 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 16 | The department was ‘ determined to avoid sequences of letters that are obscene or insulting ’ , and so put a complete ban on WET and DRY , on PIG and RAT , on FAG and DYK , on FEM and GYP , on ODD and POT , as well of course on SEX and SIN . |
| 17 | Plus standard bearings as well on top of that . |
| 18 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 19 | And I 'm intending to , to hold a few more assemblies as well to sort of get interest going again because it 's been a while since we did an assembly on it , so if we do another one , that usually gets it going again does n't it ? |
| 20 | and see they come okay , because you need to do the drawing as well to sort of get you used |
| 21 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 22 | Elderly people can turn to the social worker as well for advice on their financial problems and welfare rights . |
| 23 | They ended with lines which leave the reader in no doubt as to her view of the condition : That wretch , if such a wretch there be Who hopes for happiness from thee , May search successfully as well For truth in whores and ease in hell . |
| 24 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 25 | Both sensory and reflex anal functions were preserved as well after operation in the older patients as in the younger ones . |
| 26 | The " subsequent actualization " sense of the to infinitive also involves this double position of the support : person as support of the event of the finite verb is represented as prior in time to person as support of the infinitive 's event . |
| 27 | The reader of a poem may find himself ‘ responding ’ ( a word as fully at home in some dialects of literary criticism as in Behaviourist psychology ) with an extraordinary expansion and enhancement of awareness . |
| 28 | However , the earthly role of the community , be it protestant or catholic , is not seen as secondary to the religious message , but as either in continuity with or against it . |