Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her .
2 All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age .
3 The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets .
4 To the public , subordinating national interests to Europe 's requirements is of small account , so long as we sustain competitive sport .
5 ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages .
6 I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant .
7 It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours .
8 Saunderson , Atkins and May DJ of course , just as they produce local kids with talent at their studio and put out their records on the myriad of small labels they share between them .
9 Just as we need sensible rules to regulate our economic behaviour , so we need firmly and fairly applied laws to ensure that we can go about our lives in freedom and security .
10 We 've already seen that just as we have different tastes , so we all have different sensitivities .
11 Just as you keep much-lived garments in your closet slip into long after they 've gone out of style , bottles of your favourite fragrance still have a place in your library of perfumes , too .
12 Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned .
13 As Venetia commented : ‘ Laura was clever ; she knew her husband so well , just as she knew public taste in the Sixties .
14 Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness .
15 Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind .
16 The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence .
17 Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans .
18 He was glad to see him , for he knew him for a tough , sturdy fellow , who was considered certain to get into the Owsla as soon as he reached full weight .
19 The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health .
20 THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles .
21 NIGEL MANSELL produced one of the most masterly qualifying drives of his 12-year Formula One career here yesterday as he claimed provisional pole position for tomorrow 's Brazilian Grand Prix .
22 It wo n't recalculate automatically as you enter new data .
23 All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts .
24 New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars .
25 Third , mechanical aids such as ventilators and the like may be classified as ‘ extraordinary measures ’ in so far as they involve excessive pain or other inconvenience .
26 An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem .
27 In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures .
28 This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) .
29 Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects .
30 Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority .
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