Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potted shrimps alone remain as the sole representative of these products to retain something of its original nature , although a few smoked haddock pastes are beginning to appear on London restaurant menus . |
| 2 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 3 | The boundaries of physics constantly change as new discoveries are made , e.g. the discovery of new fundamental particles . |
| 4 | All fruits that naturally grow as trees , even if trained by gardeners into ornamental shapes , are normally grouped together as top or tree fruits . |
| 5 | He saw the man 's limbs , tightly clenched as he drove his horse towards the Cutcherry guns , suddenly relax as if something inside him had snapped . |
| 6 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 7 | The subsequent discovery of the endorphins and encephalins , hormones in the brain that act like morphine and so act as a natural analgesic , and their implication in the action of acupuncture , provided further theoretical explanation for its efficacy . |
| 8 | In so doing , they extend the frontiers of experience and so act as an ‘ … antidote to complacency ’ . |
| 9 | A dog — or better still — a gaggle of geese not only act as a deterrent to a prowler , but also provide an excellent ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 10 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 11 | The huge ears of the African elephant not only act as fans to cool its body but form a radiator for dissipating heat through their network of small veins . |
| 12 | ‘ They only act as his bodyguards in the Lebanon . |
| 13 | Moreover , the higher taxes that are an inevitable counterpart of more government services not only act as a disincentive to saving and investment , but also " overload " the economy and crowd out opportunities for economic growth at the same time as the opening up of export markets and the defence of the home market is made ever more difficult by the inevitable inflation . |
| 14 | Or , what does sinning greatly count as ? |
| 15 | Markets necessarily act as a powerful incentive to producers to operate as efficiently as possible in order to survive . |
| 16 | Therefore , in what now follows , since we shall be examining social reproduction , I only count as variable capital that which is actually apportioned to the workers , and surplus-value will constitute the whole of the social surplus-value . |
| 17 | Secondly , private garages only count as part of the limit on house extensions if they are within 5 metres of the house , otherwise they are treated in the same way as other outbuildings . |
| 18 | They grew used to the good life during the oil boom in the 1970s , an era they fondly recall as Venezuela Saudita . |
| 19 | Therefore its ‘ laws ’ of regulation and equilibrium only emerge as the result of a myriad of private actions , the results of which can not be foreseen . |
| 20 | In so tar as a class dominates social relations it dominates the production of ideology . |
| 21 | It could , therefore , only operate as a ‘ movement of middle-class protest ’ . |
| 22 | Maybe the men only operate as child carers for eight per cent of the time because of what women have done . |
| 23 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 24 | In the same field lies 1 Geminorum , not much use as a comparison for Eta because it is too faint ( 4.1 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I doubt whether it would be much use as evidence if you went to the police . |
| 26 | The overall picture , however , was by no means so clearcut as the data so far considered might tend to suggest . |
| 27 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 28 | Many extremely interesting publications on art currently only exist as a one-off draft . |
| 29 | The underlying general principle has already been stated : persisting relationships only exist as feelings of indebtedness . |
| 30 | deletes all packages which only exist as issue 00.00Z and which were reserved before the specified date |