Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A carbon-fibre brake disc shattered as he slowed from high speed , and his McLaren crashed into a guard rail . |
| 2 | The car protested as it settled into muddy pools , heaved itself out , scraped through fields of boulders and crossed innumerable rickety bamboo bridges . |
| 3 | In addition to this short formal session issued related to culture and race are considered as they arise in other parts of the course . |
| 4 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 5 | A ‘ landmine ’ destroyed one vehicle , a patrol was ambushed as they spoke to some locals , and a foreign parachute and map were discovered on a beach after a tip-off . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) The provisions of section 68 of this Act shall apply to any remises or place in respect of which an occasional permission is granted as they apply to licensed premises , with the substitution of references to the holder of the permission for the references to the holder of a licence . |
| 7 | The general idea of selecting communities which were interrelated in this way on the dimensions of status and ethnicity was to ‘ match-up ’ linguistic data from the four areas , so as to obtain some fairly detailed information on the linguistic strategies which Belfast people employed as they moved from urban vernacular to slightly higher-status speech patterns . |
| 8 | The justification for using a hierarchy is mathematical , and has to do with the way in which the total variability of a collection is successively reduced as one passes from higher to lower levels in the hierarchy . |
| 9 | For others , such as Miró and Calder , the boundary between painting and sculpture is continually displaced as they search for new ways of combining the two , with the emphasis on space , in the case of Giacometti , or real movement of forms . |
| 10 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 11 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
| 12 | Everything from bereavement and marriage to the price of yeast is taken as it comes at these rural meetings . |
| 13 | During the course of the research , other areas will be explored as they prove to important for analytical or policy purposes , such as the impact of sanctions or the options for the mineral-energy complex in post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 14 | In this work Moscovici showed how concepts such as ‘ neurosis ’ were altered as they passed from intellectual circles to common consciousness , and , moreover , this passage changed common consciousness . |
| 15 | Unfortunately though , Roebuck 's support was soon withdrawn as he got into financial difficulties and eventually was declared bankrupt in 1773 . |
| 16 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
| 17 | If the security forces are as well informed as they claim about paramilitary leadership , north and south of the border , they must carry their offensive to them , wherever they are . |