Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was over , and with the end came that sense of anti-climax because tops are never as perfect as they should be , nor the last few steps as brilliantly conceived or executed . |
| 2 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 3 | In this , NPAs had to be given 1 month 's notice of a proposal by the applicant and the applicant had to show that the NPA 's agreement was obtained ( either to the scheme as originally planned or an agreed modified version ) when applying for agricultural grant to MAFF or WOAD . |
| 4 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 5 | That all as yet completed or begun , |
| 6 | The sugar was identified as either ribose or deoxyribose : for a time it was believed that plant nucleic acids always contained ribose and animal nucleic acids deoxyribose . |
| 7 | Finally , a network administrator can identify a particular computer via user-defined asset tags and factory-installed serial numbers stored in read-only memory in the machine 's motherboard , so as either to monitor or upgrade the box over a network , using FlashBIOS . |
| 8 | To avoid confusion of terms , I prefer to refer to the activities as either projected or ‘ non-projected ’ . |
| 9 | Nor is coaching the same as either counselling or formal appraisal . |
| 10 | This capacity is no more than a device to enable the organisation to act , and should not be seen as either creating or weighing against an agency relationship . |
| 11 | Many teachers , it must be said , though , are not aware of examinations as either constraining or a resource . |
| 12 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 13 | The registry has four main sources of information : practically all deliveries take place in hospital , and obstetricians report congenital abnormalities diagnosed at birth ; paediatricians report malformed babies seen at inpatient and outpatient paediatric clinics ; necropsy is obligatory in case of infant death and when the infant has a congenital abnormality pathologists send the autopsy report to the Hungarian congenital abnormality registry ; the five prenatal diagnosis centres report congenital abnormalities in fetuses aborted after prenatal diagnosis of fetal defect — all diagnoses are checked , and abnormalities are classified as either isolated or multiple because of their different aetiologies . |
| 14 | This is usually taken as indicative of contamination as either suspended or soluble matter . |
| 15 | If any relationship did exist between recall and previous knowledge it may simply have been obscured by the binary nature of scoring junctions as either known or not known and the fact that most of the subjects actually knew most of the junctions previously . |