Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I unveil this plaque to the glory of God and in memory of all those who served in the Hundredth Bomb Group in the cause of freedom from this airfield . |
| 2 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 3 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 4 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 5 | As far as Marcus had been concerned she had succeeded too well , she admitted as she paid cursory attention to the long dark lashes fringing her clear grey eyes . |
| 6 | As she gave oral sex to the other man , Davis watched fascinated , and , asking her to instruct him how to do it , took over from her . |
| 7 | As long as we stay this dose to the hole we have to keep the rocket thrust going . ’ |
| 8 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 9 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |
| 10 | As we say good morning to Lisa . |
| 11 | He continues , ‘ So then , we do not speak in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit , as we explain spiritual truths to those who have the Spirit ’ ( 2:13 ) . |
| 12 | As long as they get some exposure to written language , most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy . |
| 13 | Control numbers on bonds have often been used to reinforce the discipline ( as they allow any violations to be detected ) . |
| 14 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 15 | TrueType fonts can also be faster as they have better access to the computer 's memory . |
| 16 | First , as they add new words to their repertoires , they stop over-extending words from the same domain already in their vocabulary ( Clark 1973a ; Barrett , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 18 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 19 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 20 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 21 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 22 | Reading Rivers and Smith a couple of years earlier , Eliot had appreciated this to the full , as his relating contemporary life to Melanesian death in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ shows . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister aimed to reassert his authority as he prepared late changes to a big speech to be delivered to Welsh Tories tomorrow . |
| 24 | And the Prime Minister aimed to reassert his authority as he prepared late changes to a big speech to be delivered to Welsh Tories tomorrow . |
| 25 | Doyle 's eyes narrowed and as he put one hand to his face the other slid dangerously to his jacket pocket . |
| 26 | The priest entered in a surly , disgruntled way , biting his thumb nail to the quick as he gave curt answers to Athelstan 's questions . |
| 27 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |