Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 . |
| 2 | More immediately , however , this may be politically inopportune , and widely resented as ‘ robbing the people of their savings ’ . |
| 3 | Hobbes 's thought , in contrast , was both well known and widely regarded as in need of refutation on account of its low view of man . |
| 4 | The Berlin Philharmonic is Germany 's ‘ national ’ orchestra and widely acclaimed as one of the most technically brilliant in the world , whose delivery is surely the nearest to musical perfection . |
| 5 | Mendelssohn 's songs have always elicited a somewhat critical response because , elegant and effectively fashioned as they always are , they seldom rise to emotional or dramatic heights . |
| 6 | It is as though the physical structure of the head and neck are being at one and the same time constructed and medically dissected as well as reproduced in terms of illusion . |
| 7 | The village or small town most famous and most visited as the home of the Bronte family seems an unlikely destination for railway enthusiasts , but at Haworth station the preserved Keighley and Worth Valley Railway has its headquarters and museum , where there is a collection of locomotives and rolling stock . |
| 8 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 9 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 10 | It may simply be used as a taunt which is deemed provocative and so portrayed as one of several triggering actions for the killing . |
| 11 | In no other state was the influence of military attachés so great and so formalised as in Germany ; but in others it could on occasion be significant . |
| 12 | As with attempts to control revenue , these capital controls were widely unpopular in local government , and authoritatively criticized as uncertain , inefficient and wasteful ( Audit Commission , 1985b ) . |
| 13 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 14 | In the main cockpit the blind flight panel was removed and cleaned , virtually all other instrumentation was removed and refurbished , cockpit fittings , trim wheels , knobs and switches were all cleaned , re-painted and generally made as new . |
| 15 | Jenna poured herself some coffee and sat opposite , deciding to face things through and not run as she had intended . |
| 16 | A slide show of the work of one class was presented to parents but this was a familiar procedure and not regarded as ‘ giving an account ’ or involving parents in the evaluation of teaching . |
| 17 | This might appear contrary to the idea of keeping systems thinking and real-world aspects separate , but it can provide a compromise that ensures that progress can be made ; however , such compromises should be recognised as such and not made as a matter of course . |
| 18 | It seems likely that in glacial periods reefs would only have been karstified and not destroyed as envisaged by Daly . |
| 19 | Kent urged the use of the single remedy chosen on the totality of the patient 's symptoms and not repeated as long as an improvement was maintained . |
| 20 | Joan de Warenne being not of royal blood and not linked as you yourself are , Lady Anne , by a bond of marriage , I can see no virtue in such an arrangement . ’ |
| 21 | City of London police said that partial closures meant Leadenhall Street and Cornhill were open to vehicles for access only and not used as through routes . |
| 22 | With its ethical imperatives , Idealism was perfectly suited to debate the ‘ boy labour ’ problem which was usually seen , in one way or another , as a problem of ‘ character ’ and , therefore , notions of duty , service , subordination , and so on , were eagerly and easily incorporated as desirable features in the making of the new image of youth . |
| 23 | The important point for present purposes , however , is that , in this and other ways , the Sexual Offences Act is not a piece of legislation which can be simply and easily categorised as ‘ permissive ’ . |
| 24 | He is as impulsive and easily distracted as KLF leader Bill Drummond , and similarly shifts queer guises ( with scant regard for commercial consequences ) at an extraordinary rate . |
| 25 | The alternative , when plutonium is seen as a fuel , is to load it into existing Russian reactors , unused to the stuff and already regarded as unsafe by outsiders . |
| 26 | The first is a totalizing strategy which dissolves every distinction into the all-inclusive distinction of race : for example you are always and already defined as Jewish irrespective of age , class , gender , culture , or any other feature which might place you in a category with non-Jews . |
| 27 | The word ‘ theory ’ is too often contrasted with ‘ practice ’ and thus interpreted as being remote from real classroom and schools . |
| 28 | The word ‘ theory ’ is too often contrasted with ‘ practice ’ and thus interpreted as being remote from real classroom and schools . |
| 29 | Their busy preparations got slower and slower and finally halted as the realization dawned that the village was deserted , utterly deserted . |
| 30 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |