Example sentences of "as [noun prp] and [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 2 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 3 | Outer G , as Dunkin and Bowers both remark , was ‘ pied during printing ’ . |
| 4 | But , as Jeffery and Matza rightly point out , this exclusion was to characterise all subsequent positivist criminology . |
| 5 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 6 | I would say too that Lillie was a pioneer in using visual aids to get his point over , as Greenpeace and others now do so effectively with video cameras . |
| 7 | Britain is not about to start writing joint papers with other countries , as France and Germany regularly do together . |
| 8 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |
| 9 | Cool and straight-batted , he had survived a couple of early shaves as Waqar and Akram almost found his stumps off the inside edge , and at 58 , right after lunch . |
| 10 | At Glasgow it was the wettest January for 65 years and stations as far afield as Stornoway and Leuchars also reported record totals . |