Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states . |
| 32 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 33 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 34 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 35 | ‘ Learn anything ? ’ asked his driver , as Spruce eased himself into the Datsun . |
| 36 | Discussing Mr Cottle as Stanley drove them to the auction , Emily said : ‘ He was here when Rose … ’ |
| 37 | This brief discussion of the differential positioning of Black women as spectators returns us to the Channel 4 debate which I mentioned in my introduction . |
| 38 | A small smile curving her mouth , Isabel nestled trustingly against him as Guy carried her to the bed . |
| 39 | Before , he had always been rather frightening but now he looked pathetic with his tear-stained cheeks , grieving eyes and red gaping mouth which could only make gurgling sounds as Benjamin took him by the hand and tried to convey his condolences . |
| 40 | As humans liberate themselves from the constraints of nature ( scarce resources ) through technology , there comes about a domination of nature . |
| 41 | Billy 's eyes shone as Yanto told him about the bike . |
| 42 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 43 | Twice , in the Miller 's Tale , we hear a cock crow , as Absolon presents himself at the " " shot-wyndowe " " of Alison 's bedroom ( 3357 , 3687 ) . |
| 44 | Time meant nothing then when kiss after kiss they shared , and , as Naylor pressed her to the mattress , Leith pressed closer to him . |
| 45 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 46 | The car in question was a little Renault , and Jenna was interested as Marguerite led her to the garage later and opened it up . |
| 47 | As Shylock says himself of the incident in Act 3 Scene 1 — line 28 : |
| 48 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 49 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 50 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 51 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 52 | She caught hold of the cart tail as Jotan drove it into the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 53 | As Crombach puts it in the foreword to Irvine and Berry ( 1981 ) ‘ the progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported ’ . |
| 54 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |
| 55 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |