Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 2 | He did not have time to check his mirrors for police cars as he passed All Hallows-on-the-Wall and plunged into the long straight canyon of London Wall . |
| 3 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
| 4 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |
| 5 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 6 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 7 | Looking at the behaviour of costs as we increase all outputs proportionately along the ray we have a picture like figure 2.5a . |
| 8 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 9 | The green of sugar cane showed above dry yellow stalks as we crossed another river bed , the sound of rushing water drowning the engine . |
| 10 | I know that plans are well advanced throughout the country for a massive collecting effort next year and I want to wish all of you involved all the very best in your efforts as we approach these days , that 's to say donation days , in the coming year . |
| 11 | Finally , she abandoned herself to him once again , the moonlight playing on their bodies as they loved each other with a strength that surprised them both . |
| 12 | Wealth used for production ( for example shares ) is of particular interest to Marxist sociologists as they believe that power largely derives from ownership of the means of production . |
| 13 | The acceleration of charged particles is of ever-increasing importance to astronomers and astrophysicists as they study such phenomena as pulsars and solar flares . |
| 14 | Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison . |
| 15 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 16 | So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse . |
| 17 | She spent the next hour jotting down notes as she processed each disk . |
| 18 | Vertical aerial photographs , taken from directly above a site , are used mainly for plotting features on to maps as they show less distortion . |
| 19 | some of the taking exams as we had this year , they , they |