Example sentences of "as one [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one might expect from the rise in the divorce rate , the proportion of single-parent families has been increasing . |
| 2 | As one might expect from the discussion elsewhere in this chapter , there are a variety of reasons why adjustment to monetary union is not likely to be spread evenly across space . |
| 3 | As one might predict from the history of interpreting in the USA and Scandinavia , it is within the field of education that the basis of an interpreting service is laid . |
| 4 | Making concessions to Lenin 's Indian and ‘ Asia-First ’ opponent , M N Roy , the Commission had , throughout the theses , replaced ‘ bourgeois-democratic ’ by ‘ revolutionary ’ and the result was , as one may see in the sixth thesis , that the revolutionary-liberation movement in backward countries or among backward nationalities was invited to determine what forms this alliance should take . |
| 5 | As one would anticipate from the standard grief reaction commonly lasting two years , the recovery process is itself a grief reaction to the loss of a former " friend " in the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 6 | Sri Lanka , like India , was subject to periodic increases in the price of grain , but the link between crime and economic hardship was not as strong as one would expect from the Indian evidence . |
| 7 | The movement in the direction along the grain of the wood is negligible , as one would expect from the molecular structure . |
| 8 | The mitochondria of insect muscle vary greatly in size , shape and distribution , being most extensively developed in the flight-muscles , as one would expect from the extremely high metabolic rate of these actively contracting structures . |
| 9 | The speech by the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) was trenchant and honest , as one would expect from the hon. Gentleman . |
| 10 | A noticeable reduction in fluid uptake or an apparent fluid secretion was seen on days 6–9 , although the recorded secretion was not as large as one would expect from the rather pronounced inflammatory response in the jejunal segment that was investigated . |
| 11 | The wide choice of theatres , cinemas , museums , art galleries , leisure centres and parks is as exciting and interesting as one would expect in the province 's leading city . |
| 12 | The wide choice of theatres , cinemas , museums , art galleries , leisure centres and parks is as exciting and interesting as one would expect in the province 's leading city . |
| 13 | Adorno 's critique , in fact , was never as far away from the motivations of cultural criticisms as one would imagine from the myth . |
| 14 | Anyone who enjoys this repertoire is likely to find this an attractive disc — not perhaps , as gemütlich as one would like in the Viennese numbers , but certainly possessing a certain straightforward charm of its own , even if at only 50 minutes it 's somewhat underfilled . |
| 15 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 16 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 17 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 18 | That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence . |
| 19 | As far as one can foresee at the moment , the IDP will make a valuable contribution to the development or fish farming , which is one of the natural growth industries for the area . |
| 20 | If this work is apparent it seems only sensible to do it and then try out as good a schedule as one can produce on the real people . |
| 21 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 22 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |