Example sentences of "[adv prt] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 2 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 3 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |
| 4 | A recent experiment in America showed that people of normal weight might start eating at a reasonably rapid pace at the beginning of a meal , when their hunger is at a peak , but this eating rate will steadily slow down as the meal progresses . |
| 5 | And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons . |
| 6 | The association between the game and the tailors could be related to the way in which the tailors were knocked down as the riot was controlled . |
| 7 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 8 | The dun cock went down as the blue followed through , landing full-flush and kneading the gaffs on the dun 's heart as if he were working a treadle . |
| 9 | The four priestesses led the man over to a freshly dug grave , where he lay down as the goat-faced figure produced a black cockerel . |
| 10 | The epidural was working and I could n't feel any real pain apart from the belt and I was lying there watching the monitor shoot up and down as the baby moved around . |
| 11 | If species were indeed fixed , then their state of adaptation to the environment would gradually break down as the conditions were changed by geological forces . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of thing that gets handed down as the women are pounding the manioc root or whatever . |
| 13 | The growth axis was said to approximate the product life-cycle , with the rate of growth slowing down as the product market entered a more mature state . |
| 14 | This does not happen in the normal expansion of the universe in which the matter energy density goes down as the universe gets bigger . |
| 15 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |
| 16 | With the coming of the Sun a cave opened in the ice , as far down as the frozen earth . |
| 17 | Diggs , the policeman from the town , was coming down the path on his bike , pedalling hard , his head down as the wheels sank part way into the sandy surface . |
| 18 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 19 | Jake started to slow down as the station came in sight , and Shiona turned to him , pulling a face . |
| 20 | Carryduff will provide fire cover as far down as the ring road , with other stations , including Knock , Central and Cadogan acting as a back-up . |
| 21 | The organisers of the match , which is sponsored by The Times newspaper , will also be anxious that he does not go two down as the public may start to write off his chances . |
| 22 | Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions . |
| 23 | The actual weight at the end of each month can then be filled in as the weight control regime progresses . |
| 24 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 25 | Your abdomen will be automatically drawn in as the ribs move out and the chest expands . |
| 26 | All existing records would be broken , and profits would flood in as the rich skiing culture flocked to resorts with the new hypersnow . |
| 27 | Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water . |
| 28 | The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ . |
| 29 | Light flooded in as the bag was opened . |
| 30 | Now it is the turn of Germany — cashing in as the pound plummets — to feel snubbed . |