Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 2 | From this standpoint , the efforts of Schleiermacher and Ritschl came to be diagnosed as effectively displacing God by man , reducing theology to anthropology , resting on the hidden assumption that God and man were ultimately somehow identical , and thus failing to take sufficiently seriously the reality of God himself , the need for revelation , the authority of the Bible as the vehicle of his Word , the finiteness and sinfulness of man , and the radical character of authentic faith . |
| 3 | This law , in its existing form , had been vetoed by Yeltsin as effectively subordinating the executive to the legislature . |
| 4 | Since most of the states were members of its western alliance and important for its own economy , this rift was a matter of grave concern to the United States , which saw the abrupt ending of the Maudling negotiations as effectively signifying the ending of the OEEC 's role as the leading West European economic organisation . |
| 5 | Her application was refused , the Court of Appeal regarding the case as effectively determined by Neilson v. Laugharne [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 6 | Clarkson himself , his wife and old associates such as William Smith and Henry Brougham did not rest on the charge of sectarian and party spirit but reverted to the earlier image of the antislavery movement as effectively integrating the diverse roles of individuals and groups into a successful unity . |
| 7 | Since aesthetic values are informed by a range of economic , social , and cultural values , literary choices can not be seen as wholly separate from broader systems of value . |
| 8 | At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining . |
| 9 | Equally important are two more statements , first ( Thompson and McHugh 1990:362 ) : A further reason for not regarding the worlds of today and tomorrow as wholly sealed off from one another is that there is much to learn from the existing practice of employees … |
| 10 | I regard this criticism as wholly misconceived . |
| 11 | THERE WAS a fin de siecle air in London 's clubland last night — flames danced in the rarely used gas lanterns along Pall Mall as elegantly dressed members of the Institute of Directors , the Athenaeum , Reform and Travellers ’ Clubs digested the implications of early poll results . |
| 12 | The normal childhood that other people wished on him struck him as mostly plaguing and tawdry ; his own lost norm , a life spent in the company of ribald sopranos and tap-dancers and hard-pressed comedians in fear of the sack , seemed to have more decency and purpose . |
| 13 | Both Essex and Kent are noted by John Hales in his Discourse of the Common Weal ( 1549 ) as mostly enclosed even in the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | The local nurseryman was finishing off as most started their day . |
| 15 | A small Interior Design practice , offering our own exclusive range of fabrics , wallpapers , tiles and matching bed linen , as well as skilfully chosen collections from other leading manufacturers . |
| 16 | That he himself became deified lends credence to the concept of the Created God as herein defined , and to the assertion that mankind needs a ‘ god ’ . |
| 17 | U2 also come from all sides , appear louder and bigger than three musicians should be , as powerfully spread out as the Rats . |
| 18 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 19 | Nevertheless they regarded themselves as unofficially engaged . |
| 20 | We are saying to those councillors , ’ Wo n't pay , ca n't say ’ ; in other words , ’ If you are not prepared to obey the law and pay your rightful contribution to the cost of the local services which , as locally elected representatives , you have a say in providing , it is unjustifiable for you to have any influence , through your votes , on the amount of local tax that is levied in your area . ’ |
| 21 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 22 | The insistence on separate sources had been an ill-judged reaction to the Reformation Scriptura sola ; now , by viewing both Scripture and Tradition as dynamic realities , they can be seen as intimately connected , gifts of the one Spirit , in a way that satisfied not only almost all the Council 's members , but even the Reformed observers ( Schutz and Thurian , 1968 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 23 | Figure 8.1 , using the shape of a circle containing equal segments , gives an example of what religions have in common : they all teach very high ethical standards and ideals which are seen as intimately related to the metaphysical reality behind the world — a reality which in most religions is called " God " . |
| 24 | ‘ The workforce thus comes to view employment in the firm as a permanent career , and it sees its future as intimately tied up with the fate of the enterprise ’ ( Gallie 1978 , 18 ) . |
| 25 | Figure 3.1 clearly shows production processes and relations as intimately linked with the circulation of capital and the consumption of commodities . |
| 26 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 27 | Transfer the Program , or any copy , modification , or merged portion , in whole or in part , except as expressly provided for in this license . |
| 28 | The descriptions , far from gesturing to an external or subjective reality , merely affirm their own status as verbally constructed artefacts . |
| 29 | The group classified as inadequately described has an exceptionally good record , but the unoccupied group has by far the worst mortality record of any social group . |
| 30 | The rule for dragging is the same as fro crosshatching : strong colours first . |