Example sentences of "as [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I am writing these words , I have a persistent , low-pitched hum in my left ear . |
| 2 | Mine starts at least two weeks before I begin fishing and continues , albeit less frequently , for as long as I am fishing that water . |
| 3 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 4 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 5 | I would like to thank the following women for their support and encouragement as I was writing this piece : Anne Collins , Linda Stepulvage , Tricia Darragh and Lisa Hunt . |
| 6 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 7 | In fact a new study , by Merchant ( 1989 ) , was published as I was drafting this section . |
| 8 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 9 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 10 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 11 | He 's standing right under me while I 'm trying to make some tea as I 'm pouring boiling water into the teapot and he 's right under my legs . |
| 12 | — as soon as you are drilling basic questions , use them to keep a given conversation item going as long as possible . |
| 13 | As you are reading this leaflet , you are probably considering whether to have an HIV antibody test , as this is the only way for most people to find out whether or not they are infected with the virus that can cause AIDS . |
| 14 | As soon as you 're settled one way or another I 'm out of it . ’ |
| 15 | They did — and still can — mean much , much more than you probably imagine as you 're putting this week 's issue together |
| 16 | If someone said , Okay nitric acid and calcium hydroxide. as long as you were using this chart to work out which are single negative and double negative , what 's going to happen to that one ? |
| 17 | One woman was close to tears as she was named Top Unit Manager of the Week . |
| 18 | And the number is not likely to reduce as the scope of spreads and as we 're offered new technologies , software technologies by vendors . |
| 19 | as we 're doing twelve hours perhaps I 'll come in tonight and the machine will actually be running . |
| 20 | erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically . |
| 21 | However , as we are using incremental change instead of wiping the slate clean and trying to move to a new system , we are avoiding huge extra costs at one fell swoop and also avoiding creating a system in which there would be many losers as well as gainers at the point of change . |
| 22 | As we are installing standard accounting software , configured in the same way , this will eventually enable AEI to have local fiscal reporting , regional reporting — such as Europe , the Pacific or North America — and consolidation at corporate level . ’ |
| 23 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 24 | In the meantime , it is very pleasant , and indeed it 's salutary , to remind ourselves , as we are doing this evening , of what a university is actually about . |
| 25 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 26 | Beyond Postojna the roads became increasingly worse , twisting and turning as we went through at Janene on the Croatian border where it was explained that we would have to pay a reduced fee ( as we were carrying humanitarian goods ) of 13DM in order to acquire the appropriate papers to allow us to enter Croatia . |
| 27 | Its magnitude is officially given as below 9 , so that it should be invisible with binoculars ; I have suspected it with × 12 or higher magnification , but it is difficult to be sure , as there are scattered disconnected stars around . |
| 28 | There is as much in the Bill to ensure the success of buy-outs as there is to ensure good weather . |
| 29 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 30 | As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule . |