Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when extreme and prolonged , they have a strange tickle of meaning in them that becomes more of a mystery as faith grows . |
| 2 | Using it as fuel deletes transport 's contribution to the greenhouse problem at a stroke , as hydrogen burns to give just water vapour and NOx . |
| 3 | Your average post-political millennial rap , in other words ( or as Colin says , ‘ the-end-of-the-millennium psychosis blues ’ ) . |
| 4 | As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea . |
| 5 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 6 | The traditional interpretation of the large buildings at the major urban centres as palaces argues for a simple pyramid society , with all the produce and services coming into the king 's administrators ' hands for redistribution . |
| 7 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 8 | It can be a matter of good timing — and timing as well as luck plays a part in working with nationals . |
| 9 | For , as Lecourt describes it , he attempts |
| 10 | Showdown in Deadwood as Costner makes town goldmine for gambling SCREEN hero Kevin Costner is playing the bad guy for once after fuelling a gambling war in a Wild West town . |
| 11 | The key is the ‘ anthropic principle ’ , which draws attention to the fact that , as Hawking says , ‘ we see the universe the way it is because if it were different , we would n't be here to observe it . ’ |
| 12 | Elderly residents moved as Board closes down home |
| 13 | As PCR becomes more widespread , it is the favoured tool for searching for organisms in this situation . |
| 14 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 15 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 16 | By June 1944 , those statistics had improved greatly , but as Dan tells us , ‘ Statistics proved you were dead after 25 missions in those days . |
| 17 | Another problem had arisen , as Dan explains . |
| 18 | As the foregoing sections have illustrated , population pressures , often stimulated by other factors such as economies and land ownership , are frequently the underpinning cause of environmental change , especially as agriculture has spread into areas that are only marginally productive or where injudicious land-use practices have been established . |
| 19 | Methane increases as agriculture spreads and intensifies . |
| 20 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 21 | The formula of an element or compound which exists as molecules consists of symbols of the element(s) in one molecule and shows the number of atoms of each element in one molecule . |
| 22 | My mind is wandering , as Isabel has said , I forget things . |
| 23 | Energy demand is likely to increase by some 90% in the Middle East over the rest of the century as industrialisation continues in the major oil exporters . |
| 24 | As industrialisation takes work out of the home , women , if they are to be encouraged to join the labour force , must be assisted in child and home care . |
| 25 | Back in the early Eighties as Marlene observes , a ‘ stupendous era ’ lay ahead for women and this prologue with its oddball assortment of characters is , one supposes , a disturbing reminder of women as sexually passive victims and a particularly ironic comment on the complexity of their relationships with men . |
| 26 | According to Asser 's Life of King Alfred , that intellectual monarch had candles of equal length lit successively to mark the passing of the hours ; but , as Bloch remarks , ‘ such concern for uniformity in the division of the day was exceptional in that age . ’ |
| 27 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 28 | Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related : |
| 29 | Much of the exchange was probably in the form of reciprocity bound up with gift-giving as Grierson implies ( 1959 ) . |
| 30 | A score out of 10 is given for each set , the score being tallied as user progresses . |