Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't , the boat could stop suddenly as fuel dries up , owing to the vacuum created in the tank . |
| 2 | At present approximately 50 per cent of the SSL 's purchase grant is spent on periodicals ; this proportion will rise annually as prices increase without a matching increase in the purchase grant . |
| 3 | This , however , is not the case in many developing countries , especially in Africa and thus it is likely that the rate of land degradation will increase indefinitely as populations continue to grow . |
| 4 | Joe Burns 's father used to work here as cattleman — you know that , Billy . ’ |
| 5 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
| 6 | Naturally , the debate will rage on as players , coaches and administrators become more involved . |
| 7 | Assessment time has doubled , said one Lincolnshire social worker who predicted the authority 's petrol budget would rise dramatically as staff make more visits to clients . |
| 8 | Staff at the BBC seemed far from happy with the outcome , but the belief was that the row will die down as management concentrates on the market-oriented reforms being ushered in . |
| 9 | Cut down to size , the film will turn up as Vegetable Plots in Channel 4 's True Stories on 14 May . |
| 10 | UNFORTUNATE THAT their debut LP should arrive just as Virgin are dumping Boy George 's label , since E-Zee Possee 's stuff is not all as piss-poor as singles like ‘ Breathin' Is E-ZEE ’ might lead you to believe . |