Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heterodoxy or heresy originally arises as opposed to doxa , which takes the shape of ‘ orthodoxy ’ to defend itself from the heretical challenge . |
| 2 | Russians adopted the orthodox spirituality of the Greeks and it is interesting that , even after decades of Soviet oppression , they do not have the same problems about the reality they call ‘ God ’ as we do in the West , where Christians always behaved as though God could be discussed like any other metaphysical entity . |
| 3 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 4 | The major conclusion that can be drawn from this analysis is that users are generally satisfied with the information they receive , but there is no doubt that confusion still exists as to the range of information providers available . |
| 5 | For the majority of pupils , it is probably the case that girls now do as well as boys . |
| 6 | Objectives , for example in the area of educational policy , are often multi-purpose and disagreements constantly arise as to what these objectives are or should be . |
| 7 | These powers , which the reformers Ephialtes and Pericles tendentiously represented as ‘ usurped privileges ’ , were given to the council of 500 and to the People i.e. the Assembly and the law-courts . |
| 8 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 9 | At last the sixth member of the group arrived , and Tallis almost smiled as she recognized the type . |
| 10 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 11 | Their momentum has gone but they still creak and boulders still tumble as the flow settles . |
| 12 | Yet here the lads are 24 hours later , all jaunty smiles and hangovers seemingly forgotten as they line up with newlyweds David and Thorunn Nash . |
| 13 | June 13 : T-28D Trojan VH-LAO/0–38320 badly damaged at Wangaratta , Victoria and registration subsequently cancelled as withdrawn from use . |
| 14 | If , however , the husband and wife already hold as tenants in common , and there is to be an adjustment in the extent of their respective interests , then , so far as the legal title is concerned , no alteration needs to be made . |
| 15 | This occurred on several Riglos routes , where text and topo also differed as to the number of pitches ( Routes 2 , 9 and 14 are good examples ) . |
| 16 | Astaxanthin ( 3:3 — dihydroxy — 4:4 -diketo — B -carotene ) and B-carotene both occur as chromoproteins in the integument of locusts and the green chromoprotein pigment of many insects ( known as insectoverdin ) is a complex , the yellow-orange component of which may have as its prosthetic group B-carotene ( Carausius ) , lutein ( Sphinx , Tettigonia ) or astaxanthin . |
| 17 | Benny and Ace also staggered as the main explosions hit , dust pouring on to them from above . |
| 18 | Hall was dismissed in the 63rd minute for a foul on Billy Kenny and Kendall sarcastically applauded as Hall trudged off . |
| 19 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 20 | The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Morocco also attended as observers , representing respectively the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) and the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) . |
| 21 | Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts . |
| 22 | No record of the initial request is kept and the shape and style only evolves as the metal is worked . |
| 23 | Cats and humans both evolved as meat-eaters — as predators — and until our biochemists have been able to produce synthetic meats , with the magic mixture of essential amino-acids , we are both trapped by our evolutionary past . |
| 24 | And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish . |
| 25 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 26 | After persistent lobbying of the Bishop of Salford and correspondence with the Jesuits , they agreed to withdraw the church from sale , and worship now continues as before . |
| 27 | Public protests helped to prevent this and worship now continues as before |
| 28 | Opinions may be expressed in accounts and directors may be able to select accounting policies , but readers often react as though those choices are made by unprejudiced seekers after truth . |
| 29 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 30 | But Cureton also regards as constituents of the rhythmic hierarchy syntactic groupings such as the association of main and dependent clause , or those of poetic form such as the octave and sestet of a sonnet ; in such cases the strength of the strong element is obviously informational richness rather than physical strength . |