Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 2 | OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event . |
| 3 | Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen . |
| 4 | Harry 's breath felt like the blast from a sauna door against the back of my neck as he cropped pungent cedar shoots along the way . |
| 5 | Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Questioning the nature of the issue under study is an important part of research as it clarifies initial concepts and examines the definitions employed . |
| 8 | Willie half mumbled and half read the script as he pencilled little letters around the sentences . |
| 9 | It 's a graph of average household size in North Yorkshire , and it 's to that extent it 's an attempt to summarize into one figure , the headship rate effect as it affects average household size . |
| 10 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 11 | And since I am raising this question of the universalizing and the depersonalizing of egoism as it becomes poetic dedication in poetry , I 'd like to do this by offering you a contrast , and I choose as my contrast Alexander Pope , another poet who was obsessively concerned with his own role as a poet — in his satires in this case . |
| 12 | This can not be done from behind a desk as it requires direct observation of the operation , sometimes for an extended period , to find out what is actually done on site as well as what should be done . |
| 13 | The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep , mud-slick , heavily fortified hill . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
| 17 | Ten minutes later Rachel sat opposite Jimmy in the hospital self-service bar as they sipped hot tea from plastic cups . |
| 18 | Eucalyptus oil will also help patients with a cold as it clears nasal passages . |
| 19 | Now at last a brazen middle-aged hussy I inveigled my way right into the engine room , sweating with delight as I sketched shining brass , ratcheted levers and big end bearings . |
| 20 | Do you have any anxiety as you anticipate sexual relations ? |
| 21 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 22 | The lights of Stornoway floated on a soft haze as we passed Arnish Lighthouse and almost regretfully we tied up at Cromwell Quay . |
| 23 | The hydraulics gave out their whine as he joined other crew members staring down at the scene below and half a mile back . |
| 24 | A citation may be made ‘ in praise , in scorn , or as a basis for further work ’ , according to Schaefer , in a summary of the citation process as it affects biological science . |
| 25 | The consequent soul-searching often includes as much self-mockery as it does social criticism , and for this reason it is not subversive . |
| 26 | And magic was always close to Sukarno 's imagination as he acquired Western knowledge . |
| 27 | Did you have this in new one int room as you go other side of fire place in that big polythene bag June |
| 28 | ‘ And he 's mad at them , ’ Jamie grinned , drinking his pint as I annihilated various dodging , multi-coloured spacecraft on the screen . |
| 29 | Jacqui watched from a distance as they drank iced coffee and danced to the string quartet . |
| 30 | They can share knowledge as they put research-based theory into practice . |