Example sentences of "as they [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
2 | As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule . |
3 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
4 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
5 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
6 | So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips . |
7 | They want to destroy a sensible cost-free control system at the same time as they are introducing elaborate supply controls in all other important sectors of agriculture . |
8 | Same as all farm work , see , farm work They do n't know as they 're born these days , these youngsters do n't , when they come to talking about farming . |
9 | It was a bad thing for me , strictly speaking , because the men became as they was earning more money than me and this is complete fact . |
10 | As they were denied Christian burial the hands proceeded to assume a life of their own . |
11 | They had refused to pay the toll as they were delivering humanitarian aid . |
12 | The Palestinians were fighting their way forward — as they were to do many times in the future — in the wrong direction . |
13 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |