Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 2 | The patriarchal values of the countryside seem unthreatening by contrast , much as they do in Francesco Rosi 's film Three brothers , in which a similar transaction between city and countryside is followed through . |
| 3 | Bees normally use microbes to ferment food proteins , much as we deal with cheese or yoghurt . |
| 4 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 5 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 6 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 7 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 8 | So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth . |
| 9 | Hence section 252 provides that a private company ( whether or not small or medium-sized ) may elect ( by elective resolution in accordance with section 379A ) to dispense with the laying of accounts , and this dispensation applies in respect of the financial year in which the election is made and to subsequent financial years so long as it remains in force . |
| 10 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 11 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 12 | He had asked John Prior Estlin for letters of introduction to the Unitarian ministers at Bridgwater and Taunton , and became a regular preacher in both towns for as long as he remained at Stowey . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 14 | Wright — so long as he remained in exile — could write what he liked . |
| 15 | Beyond this , especially as one proceeds into issues of criminology and penology , account must be taken of psychology and arguably of medical science . |
| 16 | Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Sept. 28 that it demonstrated " the commitment of the US administration and President Bush personally to the process of nuclear disarmament " , but added that it was " still premature to assess the whole scope of these proposals " especially as they pertained to cuts elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | Apart from the reservations already expressed concerning Ashraf 's work , it should also be observed that she emphasizes writers from the end of the century and later , especially as they relate to chartism and subsequent developments . |
| 18 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | So as they increase in sales |
| 20 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 21 | It struck ten o'clock as she walked into St-Jean . |
| 22 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 23 | It is only as we become at ease with the condition of our own humanity that we can accept another person 's . |
| 24 | Although change may evolve slowly , problem-posing can be a nurturing process with people exploring visions and building community together as they work on problems . |
| 25 | In the second and third years the course comes together as it concentrates on communications as a discipline , taking the discourse of sociology and psychology much more for granted . |
| 26 | He leafs through the file of correspondence in his In-tray , the two vertical lines in his brow above the nose drawing closer together as he concentrates on names , figures , dates . |
| 27 | She watched dazedly as he paced in front of the cottage , hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jeans . |
| 28 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 29 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 30 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |