Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 By consideration of points raised in the module , and matters arising from them , teachers are made aware of the distinction between drills promoting mechanistic performance and drills promoting the unconscious internalization of mentalistic competence structures , and of the distinction between meaning as semantic signification and meaning as pragmatic value in context .
2 In part , this is because the aerosols from the Pinatubo volcano did not reach the Arctic stratosphere in as high quantities as feared .
3 But nothing as high speed as racing through the streets of Kalgoorlie .
4 Thus local styles which bear some slight resemblance to a powerful foreign prototype may be written down as debased plagiarisms and classified as ‘ degenerate ’ forms or ‘ skeuomorphs ’ , rather than evidence of an indigenous tradition with its own distinct characteristics .
5 As then , he dealt with the motion as a three-part whole rather than as separate clauses and refused to incorporate an amendment ( carried 2:1 ) which sought to modify the proposed Committee revision in respect of the Captains , which many members considered was a continuation of the sort of privileges previously enjoyed by bondholders .
6 Chariots fight as individual models as described in the Warhammer rulebook .
7 Chariots fight as individual models as described in the Warhammer rulebook .
8 Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard .
9 A recent , more complex example is David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers ( 1988 ) , which arguably starts off as black comedy but ends as something like black tragedy .
10 I 'd never realised that pelicans were as graceful flying as swimming .
11 At any rate , if an alliance was being formed , it was as heavy going as bringing together two Middle East states .
12 Whether the clays remain as discrete particles or cluster together to form flocs or aggregates with diameters much larger than the individual component particles is often a function of these waters .
13 ATP and SAM serve as both cofactors and as allosteric effectors and determine whether restrictase , or methylase , activity occurs , dependent upon the state of methylation of the DNA substrate [ 6 ] .
14 But having said that , over the whole of the tropics , there 's something like a thousand million hectares of forest , of which one million is actually managed as sustained yield as defined by this book , which is erm managing the forest , and actually carrying out sort of operations to improve the regeneration afterwards .
15 I have since then stayed in as close touch as seems safe .
16 ‘ We could get in as third-placed team if United win the Rumbelows Cup and the League .
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