Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [prep] [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 | Erm improving market share , well all of our businesses have improved their market share during this recession and I 'll , I 'll mention them as I go through the individual companies . |
| 3 | As I pass into the cool , dappled light , the deep silence of the wood surrounds me . |
| 4 | This time lag , however , dies not always occur , as I show in the same study , and we are not in a situation to make the kind of general assumption made by Morgan and Engels . |
| 5 | That is a lie for a start , I think , as I submit to the customary kiss on both cheeks . |
| 6 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 7 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 8 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 9 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 10 | Now as I say to every one of you er on these courses , do when you go through W H Smith pick one up and have a look at it . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 13 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 14 | As I enter with the lacquered tray , |
| 15 | I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 18 | As far as I recall from the last meeting . |
| 19 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The scent of jasmine greets you as you walk through a creepered archway into the wide lawn . |
| 22 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 23 | But as you progress from the 60 per cent level upwards , remember that your body is the best judge of what feels comfortable . |
| 24 | To get the power back on again you will now have to push against the sail as you sail on the wrong side . |
| 25 | The landscape becomes gradually more mountainous as you climb through the Bohemian Forest with its stands of tall , dark pines . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Redolent of exotic fruit and scented soap , it is almost sweet-and-sour in character — seemingly sweet at the rich bouquet stage , but satisfyingly dry — almost sour — as you come through the pungent taste . |
| 28 | Not to worry ; the welcome and conversation soon takes over as you mix with the whole village : small kids , their little old grannies , Lappish reindeer herdsmen and the odd Swedish blonde . |
| 29 | Here you will need to reduce the airbrake to continue the float and then , as you get to the better ground , to re-open them to make the landing . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's steelworks on one side of Wollongong and as you get to the other side , where we 're closer to , it 's all tropical rain forest and beach . |