Example sentences of "and [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so as the Soviet President left Moscow , shaking hands with Politburo members , he leaves behind a political challenge and an economic crisis ; it threatens everything he 's fought for . |
| 2 | As society changed further , and especially as the political independence of the courts within which the poets worked was weakened and finally lost , the social relations changed again , and the literary organization became at once more specialized and more socially disconnected . |
| 3 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 4 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 5 | History turns the page , and just as the Seventies really begin in 1969 , so the Eighties really start in 1979 . |
| 6 | And just as the ethical perspective of Stoicism was shaped by the slave-status of some of its principal proponents , so the ethical perspective of women has evolved within a framework of powerlessness to affect external events — even the lives of her own children within the family structure — and powerlessness to resist the inexorable internal cycle of obtrusive biological change , with the social and economic concomitants of that change that are absent in the case of the more modulated maturing and ageing processes of men . |
| 7 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |
| 8 | A few more days , a bit more luck and it will be hi ho Silver and away as the Lone Ranger had it . |
| 9 | He adored Perdita , but Ricky was his great love , and gradually as the ugly little dog limped after him , barking encouragement during practice chukkas , and even hitching a lift on the back of a pony in order not to be separated , Ricky succumbed totally to his charms . |
| 10 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 11 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 12 | After the two boys left the farmhouse , it was searched as systematically and thoroughly as the other houses . |
| 13 | Council has rightly , and appropriately as the new millennium approaches , committed us , the profession , to an act of faith . |
| 14 | And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act . |
| 15 | He emerged from the frostbitten earth as mysteriously and magically as the transitory rare flowers ; and he continued to move mysteriously — you left him under a coat and he reappeared in a drawer — all that winter . |
| 16 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 17 | Hence , class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society . |