Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a poor , meagre creature , this Brother John Caldwell , thin as a rail from long starving in the woods , and by no means fully recovered as yet . |
| 2 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
| 3 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 4 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 5 | The 1904 School Regulations refer to the " group of subjects commonly classed as " English " and including the English language and literature , Geography and History " . |
| 6 | The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor … |
| 7 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 8 | These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism , and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism . |
| 9 | In 1823 he was instrumental in establishing the Mechanics ' Magazine and the Mechanics ' Institute where , in 1825 , he delivered a course of lectures later published as Popular Political Economy ( 1827 ) . |
| 10 | Our Treasurer , Jeffrey Foster , has the sort of job usually described as thankless . |
| 11 | The cumulative default rate — the proportion of bonds originally rated as junk that eventually defaulted — always looked more alarming , at around 30% . |
| 12 | Even in a perfectly competitive economy — the state of affairs normally regarded as most amenable to neoclassical modes of analysis — the real wage rate will remain unchanged for as long as the level of output remains unchanged ; and output will remain unchanged for as long as the level of desired real expenditure remains unchanged . |
| 13 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 14 | A sharper awareness among historians of the purpose of actions previously dismissed as desperate or revengeful has helped explain why groups of workers not infrequently combined intimidatory action with more " legitimate " forms . |
| 15 | But of the Treatment Action Group , an activist organization in New York , said that large numbers of patients newly identified as HIV carriers were still being prescribed AZT on its own . |
| 16 | Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers . |
| 17 | The fact that the majority of people officially labelled as ‘ criminal ’ by the criminal justice system for the first time , never are again , seems to be a restriction on labelling theory 's potential in this respect . |
| 18 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 19 | It was true self-education , and accounts for the enjoyment he still shares in the works of poets now regarded as passé . |
| 20 | Clearly , Contact users had access to a range of facilities generally regarded as rehabilitative . |
| 21 | Even the case from this period that was included in the Black report ( with the year of diagnosis wrongly given as 1983 rather than 1984 ) was diagnosed after concern had been raised about the high incidence in Seascale . |
| 22 | But he himself just felt European , and his sense of identity only deepened as he grew up and travelled . |
| 23 | Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive . |
| 24 | Needless to say , input from readers much appreciated as we strive to make the listing even more authoritative for a future issue . |
| 25 | Smart 's interest in Leapor evidently faded as he did not fulfil the promise of a ‘ farther Account ’ . |
| 26 | Therefore , the observed trends were almost exclusively explained by the 400% increase during 1943–77 in cancers accurately coded as anal . |
| 27 | Morphologically , these foci did not differ from those seen in the PBD group of from lesions previously defined as acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci , which may be induced by a chemical carcinogen in rat . |
| 28 | Group 2 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease . |
| 29 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 30 | The upshot of these various strategies by employers was to pose a real threat to the future of the male piece-workers , " who in Edinburgh only get as it were the crumbs that fall from the girls " table … the girls get all the work and the men are thrown into the street " ( a union man ) . |