Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 2 | Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face . |
| 3 | They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media . |
| 4 | Questioning the nature of the issue under study is an important part of research as it clarifies initial concepts and examines the definitions employed . |
| 5 | Willie half mumbled and half read the script as he pencilled little letters around the sentences . |
| 6 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 7 | One witness described the scene as they uncovered 18 bodies : ‘ Everyone starts digging frantically , some with spades , others with pick-axes , and others with their bare hands . |
| 8 | The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep , mud-slick , heavily fortified hill . |
| 9 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 10 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 11 | We must approach observations of linguistic behaviour with the same careful attitude as we approach other kinds of behaviour or indeed as we approach our electrophysiological observations . |
| 12 | Eucalyptus oil will also help patients with a cold as it clears nasal passages . |
| 13 | Do you have any anxiety as you anticipate sexual relations ? |
| 14 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 15 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 16 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 17 | She said she did not accept under-fives at school received true nursery education as they had inadequate resources and the pupil-teacher ratio could be three times that at nursery schools . |
| 18 | The filly provided a fitting final parading of the chocolate and gold colours of the White Lodge Stud as she waltzed seven lengths clear of eight tired rivals . |
| 19 | Tracey added , ‘ The order was a good test for our facility as it employed several items of our equipment . |
| 20 | Every day as I bought these papers more photographs involving the big two appeared and not one of any local side . |
| 21 | The extremity of these awful judgements against the moral deterioration of the British people , and the enormous vision of chaos and disorder which they conjure up , suggest the need for a cautious organisation of our thought and feeling as we approach these matters . |
| 22 | The extremity of these awful judgements against the moral deterioration of the British people , and the enormous vision of chaos and disorder which they conjure up , suggest the need for a cautious organisation of our thought and feeling as we approach these matters . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister aimed to reassert his authority as he prepared late changes to a big speech to be delivered to Welsh Tories tomorrow . |
| 24 | And the Prime Minister aimed to reassert his authority as he prepared late changes to a big speech to be delivered to Welsh Tories tomorrow . |
| 25 | Premier John Major was told the news as he hosted delicate talks at the European Summit in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | The disruption of world markets in the aftermath of the war , the waves of protectionism and concurrent fall in export sales inevitably affected the Champagne trade as it razed other industries ; 1932 proved disastrous with virtually no buyers for Champagne . |
| 27 | Dig the soil to the depth of a spade or fork , and clear out the rubbish as you go large stones , glass , china , bottle tops , sticks , wire , plastic and so on — at the same time mixing in a thin layer of rotted garden compost , especially if the soil is shallow and only a few cm ( in ) deep on top of chalk subsoil . |
| 28 | His left elbow , sticking out of the window , was soon spattered with mud as they shattered vast puddles reflecting the blue of the sky . |
| 29 | She accepted the cigarette as she accepted most offerings , and still elated at the sound of her French being understood and responded to by Frenchmen , volunteered the information that she was going to Nîmes , to stay with a family . |
| 30 | Sutcliffe tapped the side of his long nose with his index finger as he uttered these words , dislodging his spectacles and causing them to crash into his tea-cup — for this conversation took place in the Senior Common Room , not long after Robyn 's arrival at Rummidge . |