Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 4 | We shall not discuss them here as they can be overcome . |
| 5 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
| 6 | He did not join her immediately as she 'd half expected , but sat down beside her . |
| 7 | If they are a member of the public in a road accident case , then you could just approach them direct as you would any other witness . |
| 8 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |