Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decent Labour win : the drinks are on me , as I soberly consider the difficult times ahead , and the paradise that will surely succeed them . |
| 2 | And that is why — now that human dominion is seen perhaps to be rather too complete , as we progressively eliminate the natural world on which our very survival depends — meat is now falling out of fashion . |
| 3 | No extra wiring is necessary to fit dimmers or security light switches , as they simply replace the existing switch . |
| 4 | The Molesworths had been impressed , but as they never read the various journals for which Lydia worked they were little the wiser . |
| 5 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |
| 6 | Hence , there is perhaps a certain poetic justice in the traumatic methodological heart-searching in which so many sociologists are at present engaged as they roundly reject the old ‘ value-free ’ claims of their intellectual ancestors and aggressively expose the latent political biases of their colleagues . |
| 7 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |