Example sentences of "as [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents .
2 Their opponents have not been able to make the connections as effectively , either through working out a coherent ideology or through practice and organization .
3 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 .
4 Deaf people , too , seem sensitive to the same patterns but do not recall as effectively with overt speech rehearsal .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 However , such a lexicon may not always represent semantic relationships as effectively ; the ratio of foot forms to inflections ( i.e. the ’ grain-size ’ ) is also important .
9 Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) .
10 Her application was refused , the Court of Appeal regarding the case as effectively determined by Neilson v. Laugharne [ 1981 ] Q.B .
11 Surely in this fictional consultation the child 's own general practitioner would be able to assess the child and administer inhaled or oral steroid as effectively , if not more effectively , than a busy house officer in a casualty department ?
12 First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes .
13 The disclosure letter is sometimes drafted in such a way as effectively totally to modify or negate the negotiated warranties .
14 The Independent of Dec. 2 described the agreement as effectively " throwing a ring-fence around the Community " which would " condemn " eastern Europe to bear the greater burden for taking in victims of the war in former Yugoslavia .
15 This law , in its existing form , had been vetoed by Yeltsin as effectively subordinating the executive to the legislature .
16 And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before .
17 We can not check this independently by re-examining the original one , not because we can not re-examine the original one but because everything we can do in the way of a re-examination is just doing again what we have already done in thinking of the new sensation as relevantly similar to the old one .
18 Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable .
19 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 .
20 No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding .
21 Unlike the others , however , he is presented as wholly admirable : ‘ much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among ; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master 's of all healing was …
22 Any enquiry into the causes of the failures of the Christian religion , must disclose that the existence of the two great divisions and of the numerous minor ones , is not the main issue , and not the cause of the failure of the religion to establish itself as wholly acceptable to all mankind .
23 Even in 1981 this occurred , to some extent , with the president 's budgetary plans being modified to a degree that a British prime minister would regard as wholly intolerable .
24 Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary .
25 And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought .
26 The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned .
27 Such accounts dismiss any notion of reproduction and treat consumption as wholly , as opposed to relatively , autonomous .
28 But , as the quotation from Wallerstein shows , his world-system approach is more narrowly defined than that , for what happens in the UK ( or other countries ) is seen as wholly subordinate to changes in the world system .
29 For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle .
30 I regard this approach as wholly consistent with the philosophy of section 1 of the Children Act 1989 , and , in particular , subsection ( 3 ) ( a ) .
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