Example sentences of "occur [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Their fossils often occur gregariously as they lived , forming beds largely composed of fossil shells .
2 Almost all the basic ideas of group theory occur naturally as one studies the cube and a fair amount of advanced group theory emerges .
3 Transform boundaries , marked by transform faults , occur both as fracture zones along mid-oceanic ridges and as strike-slip fault zones within continental lithosphere .
4 He suggests that such tendencies occur here as an overcompensation for the closed consciousness or ‘ dual narcissism , to which Fanon attributes the depersonalization of colonial man ; that ‘ it is as it Fanon is fearful of his most radical insights ’ ( p. xx ) .
5 Some pterines occur characteristically as eye pigments , e.g. a group of so.called drosopterins contribute to the red eye colour of the wild.type Drosophila melanogaster .
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