Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as I argue in the final section , the extent of sexual dimorphism will depend not on the extent to which reproductive success varies in the two sexes but on the comparative effects of particular phenotypic traits on the breeding success of males and females . |
| 2 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 3 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 4 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 5 | S against T , right , then as long as you stay in the positive half , you are on the right side of the starting line , you have n't gone back and crossed over it . |
| 6 | Time will fly by as you relax in the glorious sunshine , practise your water sports or sip an exotic cocktail under the cloudless sky . |
| 7 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 8 | Because erm the , the erm what usually people say is that erm if you use your non-preferred area in the psychological sense , then it 's very hard work because you have n't got the same degree of control as you have in the other |
| 9 | For as we mature in the Christian life so we come to recognise that there are still unconverted areas in our life which need to be repented of and handed over to God . |
| 10 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 11 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |
| 12 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 13 | And this is borne out by the fact that although the outward forms of creatures can be bred into a most amazing degree of variety , as we find in the domestic dog , the inner instincts remain very much the same . |
| 14 | But trees and hedgerows are part of the open country , they are an essential feature of the English countryside as we have in the known it are they not ? |
| 15 | Thus , using the distinction between mechanistic and organic organisations we can argue that insofar as we live in an uncertain world where political consensus is not guaranteed and economic stability is not assured then our public sector organisations ought to be moving more towards an organic , and away from , a mechanistic structure . |
| 16 | Let me not suggest that he could not work freely and spontaneously when he chose , as we see in the late The Gipping from Blakenham , 1977 , a watercolour which displays admirable freedom as opposed to recklessness . |
| 17 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 18 | It can be destructive as we see in the black humour centring round the image of the Jewish mother who with her tears blackmails her son 's emotional life . |
| 19 | In proportion , then , as we advance in the chronological sequence of his works , we find his material become less and less pastose , his touches more and more liquid and transparent , more like watercolour . |
| 20 | No clutter , modern yet not strident , leading to a desire to embrace one another in the fullness of truth as we share in the very mysteries of redemption through the sacramental life of the Church . |
| 21 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 22 | It is not difficult to imagine the exercise of these powers in the inner city areas of Britain producing the same reaction as they provoke in the riot-tom areas of Belfast and Derry . |
| 23 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 24 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 25 | There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 27 | Where things sometimes go wrong , as they do in every large organisation , the new adjudicator will be there to review complaints and offer an impartial view . ’ |
| 28 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 29 | But do people behave in laboratory situations as they do in the real world ? |
| 30 | However , when they were discussing the historical development which led to capitalism , as they do in The German Ideology and Formen , they stress , by contrast , the continuity in structure between different stages and the universality of the historical process . |