Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 2 | The way the sequencer has been set up is to allow three voices and one drum track to be laid down and then used as a backing for either the regular guitar sound or another synth sound . |
| 3 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 4 | We see also how forgery was long resisted , then finally and fatally adopted as a last resort . |
| 5 | It seems to me , from a number of recent papers ( and from common sense ) that the rare event is becoming more and more recognised as an important agent of recent sedimentation . |
| 6 | Council housing is becoming more and more marginalised as the better off tenants move out and higher rents encourage others to exercise their right to buy . |
| 7 | The manifestation of God in the Indian tradition would take such forms as Brahma , Vi u and Śiva , the trimūrti of the Hindu way of life , and innumerable other gods and goddesses , the veneration of which , in Gandhi 's view , is sometimes inaccurately and insensitively described as idol worship . |
| 8 | Constitutional rule is more ostensibly and controversially exercised as Head of the Commonwealth . |
| 9 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 10 | His first wife christened Emily , affectionately and universally known as Pem died on Christmas Day 1988 after 53 years happy marriage . |
| 11 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 12 | A perfectly rational case can be made for the merchant to be carefully and conspicuously established as the innocent and undeserving victim of a conspiracy between his wife and the monk . |
| 13 | Most of the world 's greatest wines are carefully and deliberately made as vins de gardes — wines to keep . |
| 14 | The centipedes are as clearly and extensively segmented as the millipedes . |
| 15 | Once the child has calmed down the parent can make a brief comment about it all being over now and then continue as if the tantrum had not occurred . |
| 16 | This style is conventionally and conveniently known as Daedalic , after Daedalus , the first sculptor in Greek tradition . |
| 17 | There are , to be sure , competing and contradictory images most clearly seen in militarized public demonstrations , but these are frequently and misleadingly labelled as the activities of student radicals or Red Army factions . |
| 18 | Until the 1840s the supply of coal from the area to London was tightly and effectively controlled as a virtual monopoly . |
| 19 | Instead of being repressed , the frightening possibility is voiced , dramatized and laughed about and so acknowledged as part of life . |
| 20 | The latter document ( approved by 124 votes to none , with four abstentions ) stated that Lithuania 's constitution of May 12 , 1938 , had been abrogated illegally as a consequence of the Soviet military intervention of June 15 , 1940 , and of the July 21 , 1940 , vote in the Lithuanian People 's Seimas ( elected under Soviet supervision only a week earlier and now denounced as a " tool for exerting the will of a foreign country " ) to seek accession to the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Thus what is done , and what more commonly and significantly remains as rhetoric , can be explained . |
| 22 | It 's this ‘ woman as victim ’ angle that particularly bothers other female musicians , especially Miki Berenyi , who was moved to write to Angst after Steven Wells ' Daisy Chainsaw interview ( wrongly ) alluded to Katie Jane Garside having been mentally and sexually abused as a child . |
| 23 | Even though homosexuality as such remains muted , subsumed into an ‘ other bisexuality ’ , it is here nevertheless explicitly and exceptionally identified as a creative otherness : |
| 24 | In Braque 's l'Estaque landscapes of the previous year , the two-dimensional surface of the picture is retained partly by allowing the eye no way of escape beyond the mountains , buildings and trees , and here the same effect is achieved by the concrete treatment of the sky , which is as elaborately and solidly painted as the rest of the canvas , and which is fused with the landscape below by the extension into it of all the main compositional lines . |