Example sentences of "and [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 2 | Arms flick to and fro as the Winter Fairy and the Stars of Ashton 's Cinderella give the illusion of twinkling lights in the frosty air . |
| 3 | on and on and on and on and on as a border , now she thinks that 's about the washing machine ad you know the Ariston washing ad , on and on . |
| 4 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 5 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 6 | To say that a given rule is valid is to recognize it as passing all the tests provided by the rule of recognition and so as a rule of the system . |
| 7 | The immediate reason for not using Labov 's concept is that the vernacular must be an idealization — on a par with other idealizations such as dialect or speech community — and so as an idealization it must be inaccessible in practice ( recall that you do not observe the language : you observe people talking ) . |
| 8 | But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them . |
| 9 | Sometimes people have um a whole variety of symptoms in later life and perhaps as a consequence of some sort of therapy , some sort of consciousness raising exercise , something like that erm they are not necessarily aware at the start that they 've been abused but sometimes they feel y'know a very compelling sense of memories flooding back . |
| 10 | She had risen at dawn each day , when the sky was still apricot-coloured and swum naked and alone as the sun rose . |
| 11 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 12 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 13 | and especially as a sign of cultural aspiration . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a lot to thank Nigel Mansell for and obviously as an Englishman I know what sort of pressures there will be on me . |
| 15 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 16 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 17 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 19 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 20 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 21 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 22 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 23 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 24 | As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not going anywhere — not as a band and not as a person . ’ |
| 26 | Adorno preferred instead to see fetishism as part of an objective social totality and not as a characteristic of human subjectivity ( Frisby 1985 , pp. 233–72 ) . |
| 27 | A good relationship with one parent may , for example , be protective against the effects of mental illness in the other parent , if it enables the child to see the ill parent 's behaviour for what it is , and not as a rejection of the child or caused by the child . |
| 28 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 29 | Spectra or Dyneema is best wound on the spool individually , and not as a pair ( or foursome ) of lines . |
| 30 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |