Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New chief executive Lewis Platt shows a welcome colourful turn of phrase as he says ‘ We 're about as well-positioned as anyone to succeed in the murky environment that fiscal 1993 looks like it will be . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the swim which is still the most exciting as everything depends on the tide . |
| 3 | The two were inseparable as they trailed around the neighbourhood , never leaving each other 's side . |
| 4 | The weather is unpredictable and the mountains exceptionally high as they climb towards the Vaults . |
| 5 | Without the villus a visitor would see very little in Wilpattu , though occasionally a day-hunting leopard will step out on the road , or a sloth bear stand 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) high as it reaches for the fruit , honey or tree termites on which these fierce-looking predators feed . |
| 6 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 7 | The penguin felt embarrassed as she gazed into the black , unblinking seal eyes . |
| 8 | While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis . |
| 9 | The first if the ‘ bottom of the in-tray phenomenon ’ which refers to the continuous marginalisation , trivialisation and the hope that if the language issue is ignored everyone will learn English as they come through the Channel Tunnel . |
| 10 | The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs . |
| 11 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 12 | It is the lens which completes the refraction of the rays of light as they pass through the posterior chamber ( which is filled with a jelloid substance , the vitreous humour ) . |
| 13 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 14 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 15 | His gaze was inscrutable as he smiled at the American couple . |
| 16 | The Queen looked drawn and unsmiling as she arrived at the games with Prince Philip , Prince Edward and the Queen Mother . |
| 17 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |
| 18 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 19 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |
| 20 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 21 | The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side . |
| 22 | He grunted something unintelligible as he went to the security cupboard and slammed it shut , twisting his key in the lock . |
| 23 | It was getting dark as we got to the mountains of Burma . |
| 24 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 25 | Hazel ; looking at them , felt almost as insecure as he had on the river bank . |
| 26 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 27 | Although somewhat bulky and unflattering , it was not unsuccessful as it blended with the current trend for layered clothes and endorsed the rustic air of a bygone age that other ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were now describing , As they would not consider offering anything that was not made of 100 per cent natural fibres , they managed to complete the range by producing dresses in brushed cotton and cotton corduroy . |
| 28 | No 4 ‘ Snowdon ’ sports a five-tone whistle which sounds splendid as it echoes around the valleys on the journey up the mountain . |
| 29 | The billows of cloud were gleaming as they moved through the rain , and briefly her senses lifted at the sight , but there was no instant consolation there — only , inside a crowded mind , a sudden increase of space . |
| 30 | As much of the oestrogen gets lost as it passes through the digestive system , quite a large dose has to be taken initially and this large dose causes most side-effects . |