Example sentences of "as the [noun] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the story unfolds in the immediate aftermath of the 1976 Soweto Uprising , we see how two families , one black and one white , are destroyed — and the black actors are all South Africans themselves rather than US imports . |
| 2 | I quote that not to be complacent and not to say that , in this competitive world , we should not be striving , as the Bills outlined in the Gracious Speech help us to strive , for higher standards . |
| 3 | But when rain does fall , then the desert blooms and the parched earth sings , as the shepherd-boys sang in the Psalms . |
| 4 | It was , as The Times observed in the following year , a sorry fact that there was ‘ a vague dread of a wholesome birching ’ and that nowadays ‘ the father of a scapegrace ’ no longer saw fit to ‘ save his son from the taint of gaol by loyally and soundly whipping him ’ . |
| 5 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It would also be almost impossible for the plaintiff in a civil action to get an anonymity order for himself , as the company has in the Goodwin case . ’ |
| 7 | in the stables we we do exactly with the lads in the stables as the jockeys do in the weighing room . |
| 8 | As the sky lightens in the east , the crabs leave the water 's edge and are on their way back to the forest . |
| 9 | The Europeans , she says , have not begun to pay their dues as the Americans did in the '60s and early '70s . |
| 10 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |
| 11 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 12 | Lecercle of course means death-knell but English has spoken through him , creating a new meaning for the noun that works very well as a metonymy : the bell 's tolling becomes the bell ( it has " sounded " ) much as the water boiling in the kettle has become the kettle as in the expression , " The kettle 's boiling " . |
| 13 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 14 | As the election approached in the spring of 1761 , and it became certain that there would be a close contest in Perthshire , even a single vote could be of material importance , and Drummond was well aware of the strength of his own position . |
| 15 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 16 | As the lights blinked in the overhead monitors we could see more and more buses were sold out . |
| 17 | McBride 's weeping dad shouted : ‘ Bastards , you scumbag ’ as the soldiers stood in the dock at Belfast magistrates ' court . |
| 18 | Not all retail outlets are shops — and not all shops are as straightforward as the ones described in the last section . |
| 19 | In the event , compensation for injury often took the form of a fine ( as the exception made in the case of murder implies — Numbers 35:3ff . ) . |
| 20 | As the vapours rise in the column through each successive equilibrium , they become richer in the more volatile component . |
| 21 | As the income arises in the underlying company it is felt that , on a proper reading of TA 1988 , s231(1) and ( 4 ) , the income will be assessed upon the UK settlor under s739 and he will be entitled to a tax credit . |
| 22 | And how often , as the understudy trembles in the wings awaiting the rise of the curtain , does the real actor appear , full of apologies about a power failure on the Underground or the traffic on the Westway . |
| 23 | ‘ Who , ’ demanded Auguste despairingly , as the tempo quickened in the kitchen , ‘ is responsible for this ? |
| 24 | The regional non-domestic rate has been fixed at 41.9p in the pound by the Scottish Office — the same as the sum levied in the current financial year . |
| 25 | Finally we reached Porto that afternoon , by flying VFR through the valley route to the coast as the bases rose in the afternoon , and then up the coast at 1,000 feet , just below the base of the broken cumulus , with spectacular views of Porto , before nipping inland to the field to park next to the German aircraft — which we were relieved to see had landed safely . |
| 26 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 27 | The alleged involvement of the Council had potentially serious political implications as the group had in the past publicly supported Gen. Chaovalit , and in particular his concept of " peaceful revolution " . |
| 28 | Foreign catholics who saw grandees giving up their carriages to the sacrament , theatre audiences falling to their knees as the viaticum passed in the streets , were astonished by the universal reverence for the outward forms of worship . |
| 29 | Its red hour-glass flashed up at him as the spider swirled in the motion of the water . |
| 30 | Despite its distracting romantic plot , this was campaigning cinema which put a case for the nationalization of the mines as strong as the argument presented in The Citadel for a National Health Service . |