Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb mod] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've waited sixteen years to hear from my father and they can wait for as long as I can drag this thing out . |
2 | As far as I can ascertain this notation still applies to some brands of wool , but when we come to synthetics , things are a bit different . |
3 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
4 | Make a note of the width of your chosen fabric as you will need this information when you come to estimate the amount of fabric needed . |
5 | As one might imagine this method was maddeningly inconvenient and very inaccurate . |
6 | This may be manipulated by subtracting the risk-free rate from both sides and dividing by the portfolio beta to obtain , and as we may rewrite this equation as , . |
7 | At that time the Reverend Morris Mackenzie , a New Zealander , and minister of the local parish , had invited Mrs W — as we shall call this mother of fifteen children — to use his manse as a sort of sanctuary . |
8 | As we shall see this method reveals a serious problem , one that a component-by-component analysis tends to conceal . |