Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 2 | Yes thank well yes er thank you very much as you say several pages back . |
| 3 | The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
| 5 | The rule against prior restraint is designed to allow publishers to publish even if this means betraying a confidence — a betrayal which , as Lord Denning points out , may be very much in the public interest — so long as they pay any damages that may be appropriate . |
| 6 | The sun blazed down as we followed narrow paths through the ling . |
| 7 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 8 | What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ? |
| 9 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 10 | Saunderson , Atkins and May DJ of course , just as they produce local kids with talent at their studio and put out their records on the myriad of small labels they share between them . |
| 11 | Just as we need sensible rules to regulate our economic behaviour , so we need firmly and fairly applied laws to ensure that we can go about our lives in freedom and security . |
| 12 | Talking of the Shadow is , of course , a convenient shorthand , since we have many Shadow selves — just as we have many Egos — and some of these selves carry our repressed positive qualities . |
| 13 | We 've already seen that just as we have different tastes , so we all have different sensitivities . |
| 14 | Just as you keep much-lived garments in your closet slip into long after they 've gone out of style , bottles of your favourite fragrance still have a place in your library of perfumes , too . |
| 15 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 17 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 18 | ‘ Is it just coincidence that as soon as we arrive all sorts of weird shit starts happening ? |
| 19 | The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health . |
| 20 | And as soon as he put some funnels and that down it rods pressure came back . |
| 21 | As soon as I finish five pages , the apartment starts to buzz and chatter . |
| 22 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles . |
| 23 | A LABOUR backbencher brandished a foot-long knife in the Commons yesterday as he demanded tougher laws against carrying weapons in Scotland . |
| 24 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 25 | He had watched the Rolls Royce pull up as he did most mornings . |
| 26 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 27 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 28 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 29 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 30 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |