As an adverbial clause, it means "like …"? In the manner of.

We must abide by the terms stipulated in the contract.

The complete form is as follows:

We must abide by these terms. The project is stipulated in the> contract.

Because the item in the adverbial clause is duplicate with the item in the main clause, it should be omitted or replaced by pronouns, but the predicate of the clause should still be retained. As-guided adverbial clauses are mostly omitted (omitting subject and be verb), which is an idiom.

(2) Of course, this sentence can be preceded by a comma to make it an unrestricted attributive clause, guided by as.

We must abide by the terms stipulated in the contract.

Note: Here as leads the non-restrictive attributive clause instead of the antecedent "items" as the subject component of the clause.

Page (abbreviation of page) s

As is widely used, but its syntactic functions are mainly as follows:

Leading adverbial clauses (comparison, way, reason, adverbial clause of time, etc.). )

Guiding attributive clause (in restrictive attributive clauses, if you want to use as to guide attributive clauses, the antecedent must be modified with such, the same and so, but in non-restrictive attributive clauses, although there is no such restriction, you should pay attention to the difference from the relative word which, so I won't repeat it here)

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