Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common solution is for both creditors and debtors to be excluded from the sale and to remain with the vendor as this is to the clear advantage of the purchaser . |
| 2 | And to stand at the ford as long as humanly possible , denying the Northumbrians the crossing until they were forced to give way . |
| 3 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 4 | ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Honestly , how they get away with such stuff — it 's bad enough they take a large commission , but to sit on the money as long as they do … ’ |
| 6 | By road take the motorway N1 heading west from Bern , taking care in 12km ( 7 ½miles ) not to take the exit for Kerzers and Neuchatel but to continue on the motorway as it curves south and becomes an ordinary national road a short distance from Murten Murten lies beside the lake which bears its name , close to the linguistic frontier between French and German speech . |
| 7 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |