Example sentences of "as [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As economically rational actors , the shareholders will ensure that the contract contains the terms necessary to safeguard their interests against management abuse . |
| 2 | A 1597 map of Terling depicts the village houses as mostly single-storey dwellings , though some had an upper storey at one end and many had chimneys . |
| 3 | It 's just as skilful as most other sports . |
| 4 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 5 | As most insuring company , mos most brokers or people like that . |
| 6 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 7 | In short , particular-identity the logically adequate criteria of re-identification and the idea of a unitary spatio-temporal system , are all regarded as analytically interlinked concepts . |
| 8 | It 's part of the set-up here that foreigners are treated as tremendously privileged guests , who are kept in a sort of cotton-wool cocoon such that contact with ordinary people is rather difficult . |
| 9 | A ‘ very high proportion ’ even of the detailed wording of this 1937 text remains in the published version.i Much of The Silmarillion , then , could be seen as chronologically pre- Hobbit , while the Unfinished Tales ( though much more varied in date and nature ) at least contain a good deal of material whose composition preceded the appearance of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 10 | Dickinson argues for a change in the organisation of the industry as chronologically earlier pairs show less variation than later examples ; this may only be a change in ability and need not relate to changes in the medium used to make models . |
| 11 | It 's important to do this , because the water chemistry of your dealer 's tank is n't necessarily the same as your own , and sudden changes in pH can stress fish just as much as widely differing temperatures . |
| 12 | The point is that the Council took decisions that appeared revolutionary enough in the context of Catholic life as it had hitherto been , but that , only a few years later , seemed instead as rather cautious half-measures requiring very considerable extension . |
| 13 | Further , as is often the case , the clinical conditions might be regarded as rather extreme cases of variability in the ease with which we adjust our body clock , a process that is found normally within the human population . |
| 14 | He pointed out quite reasonably that defending an old lady from assault on a tube train could conceivably be described as extremely responsible behaviour and doubtless would be by most right-thinking members of society , Polly 's opinion notwithstanding . |
| 15 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
| 16 | His views were dismissed by the government , which portrayed the riots as merely criminal acts . |
| 17 | ( But we should understand that ‘ complaint ’ is part of the Tradition , and should not be interpreted as merely personal affront : it is a valid and recommended part of Jewish expression . ) |
| 18 | Turning its wrecked agenda in to a benefit , this film presented four brief lives , with Tianamen as merely one event . |
| 19 | While I am proud to acknowledge my sponsorship by the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers and my commitment of faith as a Methodist , I address the House today as merely one voice in a large and growing all-party coalition ranging from all the Churches to trade unions and consumer groups , all seeking a genuine consensus solution to the Sunday trading shambles . |
| 20 | The first is that we do not see how states could possibly be regarded as merely one kind of actor among several on the international scene . |
| 21 | Keynesians see monetary policy , therefore , as merely one part of a much larger package of policies . |
| 22 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 23 | Geographers in particular ( see Gregory and Urry , 1985 ) fall back on materialist accounts as merely superior explanations . |
| 24 | Marxist views are not approached as merely theoretical formulations but also as guidelines for action . |
| 25 | A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity . |
| 26 | This development was effected by a government white paper , The Reorganisation of Central Government ( Cmnd.4506 ) issued in October 1970 PESC , PAR and CFRS were seen as basically administrative procedures for facilitating political decision-making and subsequent managerial control of implementation . |
| 27 | This claim about human nature is then followed by the assertion that we could never gain adequate evidence for a holist theory , and so could never give up our view of individuals as basically autonomous actors : |
| 28 | For the Piaroa , reproduction , production , and language are all placed on the same level as basically predatory capabilities , or the means for predation . |
| 29 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 30 | For example , the word too could be defined as so many milliseconds of the t frequency followed immediately by the oo frequency . |