Example sentences of "as [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news headlined the Utah work as ‘ a remarkable breakthrough ’ . |
| 2 | After due consideration the Company levied high subscriptions on members to help with garden maintenance and decided to plant ‘ Nectorines of all sorts , Peaches , Apricocks , Cherryes and Plumes ’ , as well as herbs specifically for medicinal teaching . |
| 3 | Juventus lost 2-1 at AS Roma yesterday after missing two penalties , one by Vialli , who suffered a stress fracture of his left foot in the process . |
| 4 | His mother was called a counter-revolutionary and his father was made to divorce her ; his schooldays were postponed as cities all over China exploded into violence ; his father was publicly denounced and sent to a reform camp ; and Liang Heng and his sisters were sent to labour in the countryside . |
| 5 | The notion that this is attributable to having a former royal servant , Reynolds , as archbishop instead of an authoritarian idealist like Winchelsey is to overvalue the role of individuals , of Winchelsey in particular ; for all his principled vigour , Winchelsey had failed to ensure long-term security for the clergy , or much beyond transient relief even during his own pontificate . |
| 6 | DRINKERS in Harry 's Bar elected Bill Clinton as president well before polls closed in the US . |
| 7 | David Elsworth is lucky to have such a superb performer as Barnbrook Again in his string at the same time as Desert Orchid . |
| 8 | Even if they do as much as glance directly at an advertisement , they rarely stop and read it carefully , making notes as they do so . |
| 9 | When they first obtained them from India the Romans mounted them as finger-rings less for their appearance than as symbols of hardness and strength . |
| 10 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 11 | In a move for which he would later pay , he called for the persecution of Deng Xiaoping , who was banished from office and attacked as second only to Liu as China 's ‘ leading capitalist roader ’ . |
| 12 | The Dorsal Arms of the Tentorium — these arise not as invaginations of the wall of the head but as outgrowths either from the body of the tentorium or from the bases of the anterior arms . |
| 13 | The GX product provides the same function as RDS only for graphical applications and the developer does n't have to take source code and recompile . |
| 14 | He will reject what a conventionalist accepts as law only in special cases , when a statute is old and out-of-date , for example , or when a line of precedent is widely regarded as unfair or inefficient , and it is difficult to see what of value is then lost . |
| 15 | Of insect attack , that by bruchids of Scheelea zonensis ( Palmae ) in central America is greater , the nearer the mother plant and early survival of Virola surinamensis there is enhanced by being away from the parental crown , as seedlings closer to the bole suffer attack from weevils . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) The registrar shall , on being satisfied as to the applicant 's title , enter the applicant as proprietor either with absolute , good leasehold , qualified , or possessory title as the case may require … |
| 17 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 19 | There could be no question of pressure or intimidation by Gary or Aggi as persons actually in authority or believed to be so . |
| 20 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 21 | But Norwich manager Mike Walker remained coy about the destination of the Championship saying : ‘ It would be stupid to say we will win it but we have as good as chance now as the others . |
| 22 | The reaction on Wall Street was encapsulated in the fact that the shares lost a dollar and slumped as low as $80 even for a 10-year low in early trading on the day . |
| 23 | In the more likely event that the seller makes a loss on the resale , he can claim that loss from the original buyer as damages together with any other damage caused to him by the buyer 's failure to pay . |
| 24 | Their proposed solutions are transferred to schools in Europe and subsequently to schools everywhere else , and notional/functional syllabuses are peddled as nostrums all over the place as suitable for every situation . |
| 25 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 26 | He was drunk and as sure as hell only after one thing and you let yourself — ’ |
| 27 | The referees for the 1991 World Cup were always going to be placed under close scrutiny by the media , as well as spectators both at the ground and watching on television , and so it turned out . |
| 28 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 29 | Well , yes , that 's absolutely right , and I think we 've always taken it as part of our responsibilities here really that they should extend over towards students in schools as well as students here at the university , and we do of course do quite a lot , in various ways , across the science area , to contribute towards science in schools . |
| 30 | Greatly daring , as Non-conformists even in the war years did not go lightly into an Anglican Church , I went in and sat down . |