Example sentences of "[coord] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 2 | They had excuses , or as they preferred to describe them , fair and reasonable explanations , for all the problems which had beset the Dublin plant . |
| 3 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 4 | The V1 bombs or doodlebugs , or as they were later called the ‘ Bob Hope ’ bombs . |
| 5 | Or as they put it in the locker-room , once you 're in , you 're in . |
| 6 | List these assets and liabilities at random as they pop into your mind or as they are suggested to you by others . |
| 7 | It is not unusual for children to recite happily from one to ten in a number rhyme or as they play , but the teacher does not assume that they can therefore use number or count . |
| 8 | In brief , the rules are that departed colleagues or employees may compete against you from the day they go , directly or indirectly , locally or nationally , or as they see fit . |
| 9 | There are three possibilities ; people can be lost through death ( which may be a high proportion in an elderly congregation located in a retirement area ) , transfer out ( high in an old community due for demolition , or where people move in search of employment or as they are relocated or promoted ) , or reversion ( may be high where the social pressure is hostile to the church , or where church morale is at a low ebb ) . |
| 10 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 11 | Their religious lives thus combined an internalized and private spirituality with the warmth and conviviality of good fellowship , or as they themselves called it , ‘ holy sympathy with the godly ’ . |
| 12 | Aphids , or as they are commonly called , greenfly ( and not uncommonly blackfly ) , are given a fair description and discussion in question number 1 ( see page 123 ) . |
| 13 | They like to tangle their victims ' hair into elflocks , or as they are also called , tangle locks , or mare 's braids . |
| 14 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 15 | We left er the secondary school , or as they were then , the grammar schools , at sixteen . |
| 16 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 17 | Paralleling the UK money market instruments , however , are Eurodeposits , EuroCDs and even Eurobills or as they are more commonly called ‘ Europaper ’ . |
| 18 | Single and over forty , or as they say in the world of women executives , SINBAD ( Single Income , Neurotic , Bankable and Desperate ) . |
| 19 | now or as they were |
| 20 | If the lowering of serum cholesterol values was the result of tumour activity , obvious differences in serum cholesterol values as the tumours progressed from stage A to stage D , or as they become more de-differentiated would have been expected . |
| 21 | you 're first taught to write in small letters , these crosswords or as they print most crosswords in erm capital letters , and of course you do n't recognize them do you ? |
| 22 | This is what the meeting is notionally about , or as we have already described it , the formal structure . |
| 23 | This had given him his name , Thlayli , which means , literally , " Furhead " , or as we might say , " Bigwig " . |
| 24 | Indeed , we see little of their grandeur from the line itself as we cross the Wharncliffe Viaduct on the Great Western Railway , or the beautiful bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead , and plunge into the Classical-Renaissance portal of Box Tunnel ; or as we traverse the great Tring cutting on the old London and North Western . |
| 25 | It does n't matter whether it 's one pizza shared out between three of us or as we tried earlier two shared out between six of us . |
| 26 | Or as we English put it rather more euphoniously : the wood for the trees . |
| 27 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
| 28 | The public repudiation of Russian chauvinism was to offer the oppressed the right to self-determination , or as he now put it , so that there should be no ambiguity , the right to secede from Russia . |
| 29 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 30 | And does he love you as you are , or as he wants you to be ? |