Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ for the purpose of prostitution ’ Means that loitering or soliciting must be for the purpose of offering her body etc. for reward as outlined at point 2 ante . |
| 2 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 3 | But nothing went right for Leeds as they pounded down on Liverpool 's goal . |
| 4 | Most corporate acquisitions achieve little for society as whole and tend to worsen economic ills in the older cities . |
| 5 | The great strength of Antologia di Belle Arti , and indeed of its editor , is the ability to combine the zeal of the archiver with the eye of the curator , to ferret as effectively for documents as for objects , preferably objets de luxe , forgotten in palaces or bewildered in the marketplace . |
| 6 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 7 | Kali was worshipped by the fearful Thuggee cult , religious extremists who killed in her name , believing that only through destruction as personified by Kali could the creative life-force be revealed . |
| 8 | O much more complex perhaps for women as well , more choices there . |
| 9 | In bad cases , however , with large patterns , by following the pattern your curtain could be so off grain as to adversely affect its drape . |
| 10 | They should not be put in automatically , but only after consideration as to the circumstances surrounding the formation of the contract . |
| 11 | In most infections , however , the effects are seen only after slaughter as patchy cirrhosis , and the main importance of the worm is economic , from liver condemnation . |
| 12 | Merely considering biomass as the exploitation of waste shows great unused potential . |
| 13 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
| 14 | Her knees rattled together like castanets as he helped her down on to the jetty . |
| 15 | She emerged from behind the screen and walked over to the dressing-table , brushing gently against Thiercelin as she did so . |
| 16 | Now Mill accepts that representative democracy can be as bad as Russo supposes it is , but there are aspects of Mill 's views which make him sound very much like Russo as well . |
| 17 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |
| 18 | It lost half its ten million since it started a speculator for BBC wants to buy This is Your Life and Thames the seven o'clock with Wogan as host it 's a |
| 19 | A possible chronological sequence for some of the import important hominid finds is shown in Table 1 , together with proposals as to their taxonomy . |
| 20 | A detailed guide to the use of each of the facilities provided for system users , including the means of initiation of any system utilities , together with parameters as appropriate . |
| 21 | Large areas around Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of Scotland are especially under threat as there is enormous pressure for afforestation in the area . |
| 22 | The ladies now smiled gently upon Ella as she retrieved their glasses . |
| 23 | insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses . |
| 24 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 25 | There had been a scandal in London — but scandals gathered as naturally round Byron as clouds round Mont Blanc . |
| 26 | She had n't been able to prevent herself from burying her face in the soft wool — and almost groaning out loud in agony as she 'd inhaled the strongly male , musky scent of his cologne . |
| 27 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 28 | However , bargaining structures may also be compared at the disaggregated industry or workplace levels which vary greatly within countries as well as between them . |
| 29 | It was intensely moving : all the more so in Zurich as the back wall of the theatre was lowered to reveal the morning sun glittering on the lake . |
| 30 | For Diana 's mother , fiercely proud , combative and tough-minded , it was a humiliating and unjust experience , all the more so in retrospect as nowadays it is known that the sex of the baby is determined by the man . |