Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 2 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 3 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 4 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 5 | Modern writers do not over-stress a moral view but have sufficient faith in it to allow it to emerge , much as it does in everyday life . |
| 6 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 7 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 8 | ‘ So long as it stays like that . ’ |
| 9 | Just keep going for as long as you like on that line . |
| 10 | So long as you feel like that . |
| 11 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 12 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 13 | Byron took up the above theme regarding the relationship between the communities we study and the wider world they inhabit , especially as it relates to complex societies . |
| 14 | He always laughed noiselessly , his jaw snapping up and down as he took in great gulps of air . |
| 15 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 16 | It would encourage pupils to relate to their own uniqueness as a normal activity — not as something done in special sessions or requiring special structures or special input by someone like a teacher . |
| 17 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 18 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 19 | But with the tide of war now running against the Allies , many of the natives decided to join the winning side , just as they had in Dutch Timor the previous winter . |
| 20 | Children come across written numbers , just as they come across written words , long before they are able to read or understand them . |
| 21 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 22 | These differences influenced success or failure just as they did in earlier state-making attempts , especially through their effect upon economic growth , which not only provides resources for extending the state apparatus and developing national education , but is also a major factor in conferring legitimacy upon the regime . |
| 23 | And I see nothing wrong with allowing certain rooms to be used as bedrooms , just as they do at any English Dormy House . |
| 24 | Middle class feminists also objected to this increasing ‘ officialism , police interference and espionage ’ , just as they objected to other aspects of state intervention in the working class family and to protective legislation for women workers . |
| 25 | However , Tom Crilly 's best season for us was without question the 1930–31 season , when the Palace made their second assault on the 3rd Division South Championship in three years , only to finish in the runners-up position , just as we had in 1928–29 . |
| 26 | Just as we differ in mental and physical characteristics , so too do we differ when the detailed properties of our body clock are considered . |
| 27 | So lets just as we hurry along this morning notice several things about this interview that this man had with Jesus . |
| 28 | It is thought that they are able to do this partly by measuring pressure , just as we rely on atmospheric pressure readings from barometers to forecast the weather . |
| 29 | In fact , just as we rely on many senses to guide us , birds probably use a wide range of cues in navigation . |
| 30 | Erm Romans verse and verse four you notice this text is taken from verse twelve , rejoice in the hope and then persevering prayer , but if you go into verse four , what it 's speaking about there , but just as we have in one body many , members , but the members do not all have the same function and then in six to eight he goes on to describe that we all have gifts do n't we differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us , whether er so forth and so faith , ministry , erm teaching , exhorting , all these different gifts , though sometimes if a particular brother or sister does n't have a particular gift and we think well you know that 's a bit hard going I ca n't seem to listen to them , that 's an area perhaps where we could erm be quivering could n't we , or complaining , especially about assignments , you might get speakers that come here from other congregations , and some are better than others are n't they ? |