Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 2 | However , the gold standard did not always work as smoothly or effectively as this description indicates since many countries were unwilling to follow the simple rules of the game . |
| 3 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 4 | I found it helpful that Mrs McLaren behaved as naturally ( or perhaps as unnaturally ) as her companion had done . |
| 5 | More than a quarter of the young workers interviewed had no intention of remaining in agriculture — they hoped to seek more lucrative employment , mainly in the building industry , as lorry drivers , as garage mechanics or perhaps as engineering workers in local factories . |
| 6 | More or less as soon as the subject has settled into Stage 2 sleep , at the beginning of the night , larger slow waves begin to appear in the EEG , whose frequency is less than 2Hz . |
| 7 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 8 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 9 | as so , more or less as soon as he 'd said hello he said erm thirty two and two minutes past the hour , they 're your trains . |
| 10 | If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said . |
| 11 | The recent past informs the post/modern , even or especially as the latter is changing our understanding of that past . |
| 12 | Very often I sit in my chair for ten minutes or so as soon as I arrive at the water , just relaxing and taking in everything around me , appreciating my surroundings and thinking about what I am going to do . |
| 13 | That the cripple lived near the stream there was no doubt because his crutch prints were heavily marked on the path for a hundred paces or so as though he often came there , but beyond that point there were none . |
| 14 | Or so as to test him ? |
| 15 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 16 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 17 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 18 | It will need renewing every seven years or so as it is not long-lived . |
| 19 | Section 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 ( the interpretation section ) defines a trade mark as : a mark … used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating , or so as to indicate , a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right either as proprietor or registered user to use the mark , whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person . |
| 20 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 21 | It is fair to say that scaffolding placed in front of premises is extremely detractive and the following amendments to this paragraph may be advisable : The right to erect scaffolding for the purpose of repairing or cleaning the Centre provided that there shall not be erected any scaffolding or other structures in front of or to the rear or sides ( if applicable ) of the Premises in such a position so as [ materially ] to obscure the windows of the Premises or so as to prevent or [ unreasonably ] interfere with access to the Premises by customers or other persons entering the Premises or in connection with the servicing thereof |
| 22 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 23 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 24 | Come here to see me if you will ; mother asks you , and I want you , but it is for you to come or not as you feel best , or as you like . |
| 25 | Your jewels Eachuinn Odhar gave to me , to return to you or not as I judged you innocent or guilty . |
| 26 | In the spring you reap the harvest — or not as the case might be . |
| 27 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 28 | It is readily apparent that some courts , and some judges , have used the very ambiguity inherent in that dichotomy in an instrumental fashion ; the decision whether to label a part of the X factor as jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional is influenced by a judicial desire to intervene or not as the case may be . |
| 29 | Although Angel was free to marry or not as he wished , he did not want to hurt his parents , and he accepted their advice . |
| 30 | We eat , we enjoy it or not as the case may be , and move on to the next thing . |