Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise in price is given by and is therefore greater ( smaller ) than where according as the corporate sector is more labour ( capital ) intensive . |
| 2 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 3 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 4 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 5 | Although listed as present , Councillor B. Watts appears to have been silenced somehow and even the Mayor 's declared refusal to explain why the land might not be available to the Council appears to pass without his reaction . |
| 6 | Although reported as poor in the Domesday Book , Thwing could well have been an important place in medieval times , the prosperity of the village being a direct reflection of the influence and affluence of the Thwing baronial family , who were amongst the most distinguished and prosperous families in northern England . |
| 7 | This is usually easier said than done as they rust and are difficult to find . |
| 8 | Where differences can be found in language use and mental skills , they are more appropriately described as cultural conventions than seen as evidence for profound disjunctures in mental development between members of different groups . |
| 9 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 10 | Except to do as I am told , |
| 11 | She will have no choice except to do as I ask her — and then , once the murder is done , she will be in my power for ever ! ’ |
| 12 | Although abandoned as derelict in the early 1960S , the present building has now been restored and is open as a working museum , producing stone-ground flour for sale . |
| 13 | In wartime , pitted against an enemy in front and otherwise surrounded by Soviet divisions , it is difficult to see how conscripts would have any choice other than to fight as people do when their lives are at stake . |
| 14 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 15 | In all of these activities the Faculty and the Institute , although constituted as independent professional bodies , will be working closely together as a single profession . |
| 16 | Although appointed as secretary , Doris Alloway became more like a daughter to Mrs Tiller . |
| 17 | At the diplomatic level , where the democracy movement of the last decade had always been belittled in the foreign embassy briefings , the delay in normalising relations with post-massacre Beijing was less due to disapproval than to doubt as to the future stability of the regime . |
| 18 | Picket-line relations have been most tranquil in those periods of British and American history characterised by ‘ consensus politics ’ — where trade unions have been accepted into the polity ( the government and those who are able to influence its policies ) as legitimate ‘ members ’ , rather than excluded as ‘ challengers ’ ( cf. Ragin et al. , 1982:241 ) . |
| 19 | She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one . |
| 20 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 21 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 22 | The number of teams more than doubled as word spread round the pubs , and £120 was raised through sponsorship for charity . |
| 23 | Many of the support staff , especially clerical workers , found other jobs in London and many of the company 's married women employees opted to take redundancy rather than relocate as their husband 's employment was in the London area . |
| 24 | Jesus clearly accepted others , rather than rejecting as we do . |
| 25 | Literature is illuminated rather than obscured as we come nearer the personality and circumstances of the writer ; and provided that at all times our aim is to illuminate literature , we are on the side of the angels . |
| 26 | Britain annually publishes three times as many titles , relative to population , as the United States ; and most books published in Britain sell abroad , if calculated as to copies . |
| 27 | But I think the person is not an ingredient in the single thought : he is rather constituted by relations of the thoughts to each other and to the body … the grammatical forms ‘ I think ’ , ‘ you think ’ , and ‘ Mr Jones thinks ’ , are misleading if regarded as indicating an analysis of a single thought . |
| 28 | Suddenly her ‘ Society for Cutting Up Men ’ SCUM Manifesto became popular reading , if regarded as eccentric , on women 's oppression , but interesting none the less . |
| 29 | Maybe it 's the Border Culture ! g Staff do enjoy this work immensely — if treated as adults within an open management system they will treat residents likewise and are so committed and enthusiastic . |
| 30 | That does not mean , however , that the McKinsey-GE grid approach has no value , especially if modified as indicated in figure 4.4 . |