Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 2 | So much so of course that er that er the the elder brother , he was er he was er a branch official by this time , twenty six , at the er Hucknall Colliery , the local colliery , and of course when the strike er was over , er that was the end of he as far as working in the in the coal mining industry in this particular area , that was the end of it . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I think I 'll have one , ’ said Brian , and Scarlet saw that things were even worse than they seemed , for now his tone was artificial : he was making conversation about something so trivial as pouring himself a drink . |
| 4 | With something as uncertain as output from a text recogniser , it is also valid to consider that the trigram value stored for x→y→z , also contains information about the likelihood of x given y and z as successors , and the likelihood of y to have x as a predecessor and z as a successor . |
| 5 | In other words , whilst the power to decide to serve an intervention notice without first hearing representations from persons affected was not in itself so unfair as to invalidate the notice , a lack of any means by which the person could immediately thereafter challenge the notice was in my opinion a breach of the requirements of fairness which the law should imply . |
| 6 | Status sub-text : ‘ I 'm too busy for anything as insignificant as exchanging pleasantries , so let's get on with it ’ . |
| 7 | Only somehow she could n't imagine Luke Hunter being delayed by anything as feeble as stepping in front of a taxi . |