Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again we suggest that the deictic centre is located within the context of utterance by the speaker , but that the interpretation of the expression now as relating duratively or subsequently to the utterance , and the time-span involved , must be determined with respect to the content of the utterance . |
| 2 | Our nation 's culture is bound up in that philosophy , which can not be written off as looking backwards or day-dreaming — it is deeply ingrained in all of us . |
| 3 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 4 | The courses focus on the various adjustments following retirement with financial advice to assist individuals in planning a new lifestyle , including for example such ambitions as moving home or starting a business . |
| 5 | Instead , each of us is thought of as starting more or less from scratch and the philosophical questions are how we can come from such a state , via our awareness of the passing show of sensory experience , to the sophisticated knowledge which we all have as members of a modern society . |