Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 2 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 3 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 4 | Suggestions about school-based strategies , including changes in schooling , emanating from researchers and Her Majesty 's Inspectorate will appeal to some teachers ; others will regard the law as rightly emphasising parental responsibility and in need of tougher enforcement . |
| 5 | Should we conceptualize local politics as merely denoting local voting behaviour , or should we include geographical variations in a range of political activity and experience ? |
| 6 | Indeed by virtue of the fact that the clause will be seen as merely adding extra information the natural presumption must be that this is not the basis for " recognizability " . |
| 7 | The fact that peasants seized opportunities to enrich themselves is put down to sheer good sense , an unproblematic response to structural changes , while the conviction that the Camisard prophets and prophetesses spoke with the voice of the Holy Spirit is regarded as obviously serving some psychological function . |
| 8 | Exploratory statistics might reasonably be described as highly systematized common sense . |
| 9 | Scots per day … that all servants that shall be found to be fourty days out of service after they Leave their former Masters and not engaged with ane oyr. master shall pay ten merks Scots of fine , and that every woman that shall be found out of service as above to pay five merks Scots of fine … " 1729 . |
| 10 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 11 | As well as just using existing icons you can create ones of your own for facilities that would otherwise require a number of separate operations . |
| 12 | Yet this begs the question of how policy initiatives should be assessed , given that they regularly embody flawed conceptualisations of urban crisis , were created in contentious circumstances and reflect spatial realisations of a political agenda as much as objectively circumscribed social problems . |
| 13 | As already observed that is a much better vote-winning method than staying in watching films . |
| 14 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 15 | He too realised that Matey was not pleased , but it was not their late arrival which was troubling her , but something else , as soon became apparent . |
| 16 | Not only was he engaged in a war , but , as soon became clear , it was a war which was going badly and which threatened to become unpopular in both France and Britain . |
| 17 | However , as Colin Gray indicated , they are either within striking distance of current LASMO operations — where it would be relatively straightforward and economical to tie in a smaller discovery to an existing field — or otherwise they offer such exciting prospects as possibly to warrant major investment . |
| 18 | But whether our pebbles come all the way from Brittany ( as still seems possible ) or from hidden or eroded local sources is almost irrelevant . |
| 19 | The former have been seen , particularly in the Fascist period , as decisively shaping cultural policy . |
| 20 | Broadcasting seven days a week from 3 pm to 3 am , and increasing to eighteen hours a day within two years , Ovation will offer a daily cultural news review , interviews , profiles , live or pre-recorded dramatic performances , dance events , museum visits and concerts ( possibly with radio simulcast ) , as well as specially promoted monthly ‘ blockbuster specials ’ . |
| 21 | Indeed , as gradually became clear , PAS alone is not a powerful drug against tuberculosis . |
| 22 | and if you define ‘ regressive rock ’ as deliberately induced arrested development , then you can add the whole Grebo Rock boom to the list ( Crazyhead , Zodiac Mindwarp , Gaye Bykers , Batfish , The Cult , Bomb Party etc ) . |
| 23 | Dorigo : Looked as classy as ever made some wonderfull runs along the wing was never in trouble . |
| 24 | As always seemed likely , despite the frenzied last ditch efforts of the Irish lobby , Digital Equipment Corp has decided that it is the Galway plant that must close , with the loss of 780 jobs . |
| 25 | Australia 's native animals are mostly marsupial , and — as always show marvellous similarities to the placental mammals of other continents . |
| 26 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 27 | This means that customers can use X25 to establish Telnet sessions , as well as concurrently routing other traffic such as IPX over X25 . |
| 28 | This latter intent is evidenced by the number of constables responsible for crime control in Protestant areas who see their role as also having social-welfare and community service dimensions , as illustrated in the last chapter , and , more significantly , by the fact that there are units in Easton specifically responsible for community policing in this largely Protestant district . |
| 29 | The assessment in some places of the incomes head tenants received from subletting , while a valuable addition in itself , serves also to confuse the issue , as also do sporadic attempts to assign a value to the unexpired term of a lease . |
| 30 | To Mrs Rait 's yard-long list and all bakers and caterers , may be added this year two ‘ members of the general public ’ , as they described themselves , who volunteered , as also did some pupils of George Watson 's College through Roger Vandersteen , and the wife of an elder of Murrayfield Church ( they all made exemplary Indians ! ) . |