Example sentences of "[adj] form [prep] [noun sg] as [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same …
2 Where timekeeping signifies authority , the overseer 's watch and chain , the ability to organize time to one 's own advantage is a subtle form of subversion as well as a device for self-preservation .
3 Because he draws his criteria from a particular musical tradition — a ‘ music of thought ’ , characterized by the working out of themes over extended , integrated forms and requiring concentrated , ‘ intellectual ’ listening — he regards other forms of music as either primitive in comparison or as corruptions of this tradition .
4 Third , and perhaps most important , both within the open-field lands and far beyond them , parliamentary enclosure and other forms of enclosure as well were involved with the final removal of much of the existing forests , heathland , moors , marshes and fens .
5 Erm so there are these other forms of energy as well , erm nuclear power er will take its place along those , alongside those I 'm sure in the future er it does have its problems , the main problem is the possibility of er major accidents and many of you will remember the accident at Chernobyl in the , what was then the Soviet Union , it 's now the , now the er Ukraine erm when in nineteen eighty six the , there was a very serious accident and the er roof er blew off and er radioactivity was pumped into the er atmosphere .
6 Wholesale changes will need to be made if it is to administer a new form of tax as well .
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