Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 " . |
| 3 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 4 | OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event . |
| 5 | Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen . |
| 6 | And weigh those matters up in your mind as you hear one evidence after the other . |
| 7 | Will he bear that in mind as he considers further recruitment for the TAVR in Northern Ireland ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The fact that the Erne outfit could only draw with Armagh on Sunday last despite having home advantage does not lessen McCabe 's optimism as he anticipates this week-end 's replay at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 10 | Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face . |
| 11 | The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Questioning the nature of the issue under study is an important part of research as it clarifies initial concepts and examines the definitions employed . |
| 14 | Willie half mumbled and half read the script as he pencilled little letters around the sentences . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 17 | Synthetic thread is very strong and should be used with synthetic or stretch fabric as it has more elasticity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep , mud-slick , heavily fortified hill . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ten minutes later Rachel sat opposite Jimmy in the hospital self-service bar as they sipped hot tea from plastic cups . |
| 29 | Eucalyptus oil will also help patients with a cold as it clears nasal passages . |
| 30 | And we can add workstations to that virtual machine as we need more processing power . |