Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the ‘ rivers ’ are ‘ shallow ’ in this world but , as Ralegh 's nymph retorts , in reality they ‘ rage , and rocks grow cold ’ and nothing in nature is as picturesque and harmless as Marlowe would wish it to be . |
| 2 | Just as Marlowe can choose to enter into purely fantastical land of his own making , which caters for his own desires and ignores that which he is unable to cope with in the real world , Marvell can slip into his garden and is free , for a period , from the ball and chain of the world he flees from . |
| 3 | in case there should be any fire alarms during this period ( which should not cause any difficulty as Katrina will be located on the ground floor ) and |
| 4 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 5 | I would not be interested in leaving Middlesbrough until I have got Middlesbrough as far as Middlesbrough can go . ’ |
| 6 | So things have changed , and the change is reflected , as Snow would have wished , in the school curriculum . |
| 7 | These results indicate that the P1 strain which was previously identified as S.solfataricus should belong to S.acidocaldarius . |
| 8 | There is not a ‘ great divide ’ between them as Greenfield would have us believe . |
| 9 | As Pierre will tell you thees booing is not for you , it ees for me ! ’ |
| 10 | Their points difference is vastly better than Rugby 's who are standing alongside them at the bottom and surely there was no way that a team as disadvantaged as Rugby could beat a team as talented as the Harlequins . |
| 11 | As Raoul would not have been ashamed to put it , he was like a wild young colt . |
| 12 | It is easily confused with opposition to particular American policies — rather as McCarthy used to accuse his enemies of ‘ unAmerican activities ’ . |
| 13 | She did n't even dare look for her , let alone make contact , but at least Chesarynth was as safe as Jezrael could make her . |
| 14 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 15 | Oh , I 'm an exotic to them — being a bit of a ‘ musty ’ , as Feeny used to call it , is n't anything to deny here in Paris . |
| 16 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , that might do , ’ said Peggy thoughtfully , ‘ especially as Rosalind wo n't be back home yet . |
| 18 | As Low would have known , in military matters Macmillan was in no position to " direct " . |
| 19 | It seemed that here was where the magic of Majorca lay , the duende , as Fernando would have said . |
| 20 | He agreed that certain regions , even those as large as Highland could be retained . |
| 21 | Oh Jesus , there was so much at stake , such ramifications , such things as Jessica could never dream of . |
| 22 | As far as Trent could see , there was no reason at all . |
| 23 | The trip , which will take place during the school holidays , will bring the 36 boys up against European skills — and as Jim will tell you — give them a valuable insight into the kind of football the Europeans play . |
| 24 | Much as Moscow may , on grounds of economic sense , welcome a more integrated economic policy , she would not wish to see institutional machinery set up which compromised these discrete , private channels of manipulation and control . |
| 25 | as Patrick used to say you 'd be able to poo through the eye of a needle |
| 26 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 27 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 28 | He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest . |
| 29 | If you only require mono images for eventual in-house mono printing then a video player is quite adequate as VidiPC can capture mono images ‘ on-the-fly ’ . |
| 30 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |