Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will be obliged to wait politely as you go about your task , which you can time to complete at the same moment you recover the skill of breathing in and out . |
| 2 | It is anticipated that once Parliament has approved the general thrust of legislation , the rest can be left to the department to implement piecemeal as is appropriate and convenient . |
| 3 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 4 | Caroline had no choice but to trot alongside as he strode towards an arched doorway . |
| 5 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 6 | We have to stand somewhere as we decide the next step forward . |
| 7 | Everyone connected with the club was encouraged to pull together as one big family , and Chapman fostered the spirit of cooperation by consulting his directors on team matters and winning the confidence of the players . |
| 8 | It might seem that fax 's current growth in popularity is attributable to a technological breakthrough or perhaps to some new commercial need to communicate pictorially as well as texturally . |
| 9 | It was important to concentrate so as to be able to discuss the film intelligently with Mark . |
| 10 | CHEADLE , flags holders , league champions and unbeaten for more than two years , did not allow their proud record to slip away as they beat Heaton Mersey 15–12 in the final of the Daily Telegraph Senior Flags final at Didsbury yesterday . |
| 11 | Sales started to tumble just as dealings in the shares began , but Stock Exchange rules meant boss Tim Parker had to wait until September to warn the market . |
| 12 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 13 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 14 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 15 | Only a slight chill in the air gave any indication that it was autumn , and even that was beginning to fade away as the sun blazed down again out of a clear blue sky . |
| 16 | Brian got the urge to come home as his 60th birthday approached . |
| 17 | Way To Health editor David Dickinson says : ‘ An interesting video which allows you to work harder as you get fitter and vary your workout is most likely to keep you motivated . |
| 18 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |
| 19 | The title holders ' grip on the Vauxhall Trophy started to slip quickly as the experienced Cambridge duo took the doubles rubber 6–4 6–1 . |
| 20 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 21 | But the council expects coal use to increase sharply as oil and gas reserves run out , leading to the exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves by the end of the next century . |
| 22 | Within a large warren complex it is possible for as many warreners to work independently as there is surface space for them to use . |
| 23 | Joe Burns 's father used to work here as cattleman — you know that , Billy . ’ |
| 24 | While there are many further applications of biotechnology in agriculture , such as in the treatment of agricultural waste , the examples given above testify to its potency as a future agent of environmental change , a potency which is likely to increase exponentially as genetic engineering develops ( section 8.4.3 ) . |
| 25 | She had even been going to write today as soon as Shirley had gone . |
| 26 | I have to work hard as well . " |
| 27 | Malcolm Crosby says he likes to see teams playing good football but they 've got to work hard as well |
| 28 | Ideally , someone with a terminal illness should at least have the right to work part-time as long as they are able . |
| 29 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 30 | It shows how in reality there is a need to communicate horizontally as well as vertically . |