Example sentences of "but [conj] [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 2 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 3 | No , but as soon as a woman comes in I always say ah language lads ladies present . |
| 4 | She said that existing vicars would keep their right to stay in their parish until they were 65 but as soon as a parish became vacant the priest-in-charge system would be introduced . |
| 5 | The Conservatives had clearly let the economy overheat for electoral advantage in 1955 , but as soon as the election was over , clamped down with a credit squeeze and requests to trim expenditure below the agreed levels . |
| 6 | But as soon as the animal sits down , a photoelectric cell switches on the air stream , so stopping the pig from getting cold . |
| 7 | But as soon as the combine came in I had to be very careful with them . |
| 8 | But as soon as the presentation had been made to the laboratory manager , he offered the bottle to the Guinness Fundraisers as a raffle prize for one of their future fund raising events . |
| 9 | But as soon as the name has merged with the object it designates , we must , conversely , resort to metaphor , allusion or allegory if we wish a more expressive term . |
| 10 | But as soon as the Fronde was over . |
| 11 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 12 | The war memorial tablet on the wall of Brigstock Villa was removed to a place of safe keeping before tram operation from Thornton Heath ceased , but as soon as the depôt was cleared of cars , demolition contractors moved in . |
| 13 | But as soon as the television come round there was a helluva change in the screws , being falsely nice . |
| 14 | But as soon as the stoat got into the wind and the rabbit scented it , the rabbit set up a shriek and remained as though paralysed . |
| 15 | But as soon as the meal was finished , her animation left her . |
| 16 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |
| 17 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 18 | The allied forces were spread like a net to trap an emperor , but as soon as the Emperor touched the net it was supposed to contract and entangle him . |
| 19 | His constitutional plan had been to secure the election of his son , the young Frederick , as king , but as soon as the emperor was known to be dead the wisdom of upholding the election of so young an heir was questioned . |
| 20 | Those feelings are another subject for another day , but as well as the cricket final , I have absorbed a mass of European and world football . |
| 21 | But as well as the playing being better , we also went for a lot of different arrangements and different sounds , using a whole variety of guitars . |
| 22 | But as well as the instinct to get right away , the two painters were alike in being unable to draw acceptably . |