Example sentences of "[adj] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tentative price was £8,000 and Oceanic Airways of Australia were interested as they operated 10 Monospar four-seaters . |
| 2 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 3 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |
| 4 | A 23-year-old woman poured paraffin over her 38-year-old lover and set it alight as he lay bound hand and foot , and blindfolded , ‘ wearing a pair of her open-crotch panties and nylon stockings ’ on a mattress in their living-room . |
| 5 | Of course the type of soil in the area plays an important part in good gooseberry growing , and the good heavy loam of Egton Bridge is ideal as it retains vital moisture . |
| 6 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
| 7 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
| 8 | As long as they get some exposure to written language , most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy . |
| 9 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 10 | As long as we stay this dose to the hole we have to keep the rocket thrust going . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Or , at least it is n't so long as we avoid that bit of road . ’ |
| 12 | We are humbled and brought low by them , but the spirit of man — and I now have to say woman — and the freedoms that we enjoy lie within our grasp as long as we hold this House . |
| 13 | ‘ As long as we take proper care of the children . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As long as we understand each other on that score , fair enough . ’ |
| 15 | As long as we understand each other . |
| 16 | Peter Rogers , who produced all the movies , told me that he said that as long as he had enough money to keep himself and his mother he was happy . |
| 17 | But it was his duty to suffer , if only vicariously , with his people , and as long as he had any strength left he would fulfil his duty as he saw it . |
| 18 | ‘ As long as I drink some Lucozade straight away , then I 'm OK . |
| 19 | As long as you apply common sense , you 'll emerge unscathed from the financial crisis . |
| 20 | You can withdraw up to £50 a day as long as you have enough money in your account . |
| 21 | As long as you buy good quality seed potatoes you should not need to use any pesticides — planting ordinary potatoes is not recommended as they can succumb to viruses . |
| 22 | Only James remained as abstracted as he had all day yesterday . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean , I think as far as I remember last spring was a good one was n't it ? |
| 24 | ( The timber roofing is not merely picturesque but intensely practical as it prevents heavy winter snowfalls from rendering passage over the bridge either impossible or very hazardous . ) |
| 25 | ‘ He sure seems to have taken to you , ’ said Janine as she loaded another sack on to his saddle . |
| 26 | Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than . |
| 27 | Both studies , however , are not strictly comparable as we used elemental diet for at least four weeks and had five day introduction cycles with reintroduction of once only identified foods whereas Alun-Jones et al used diet to symptomatic remission only , had a daily introduction programme without repeat exposure to suspect foods , and in one study used a high fibre diet in the control group . |
| 28 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 29 | This is n't always possible as we saw last year and as we have been reminded , that was not an easy decision and in fact it 's one of the reasons that we have n't put extra money into the primary schools this year . |
| 30 | With many hand shakes and introductions , the candidates and their leader met as many people as possible as they visited each department . |