Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear what my hon. Friend says , as I hear all representations on this matter . |
| 2 | People left smiling and as I passed one lady on her way down the hill she grinned at me and said ‘ Perfick ’ ! |
| 3 | They have varying effects on humans and as I discovered disastrous effects on fish . |
| 4 | She waited a moment and , as she saw light dawn on the other woman 's face , she started to think that they were getting somewhere . |
| 5 | For a few seconds , as she leaned both hands on the desk to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings , a feeling of panic hit her . |
| 6 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |
| 7 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 8 | But her thoughts were brought to an abrupt end , as she descried two figures on their way up the path , and knew she must vacate the viewpoint for Rosie and her Francisco . |
| 9 | At Carnival Cruise Lines we do not have any minimum age limits as we judge each person on his or her ability and personality . |
| 10 | So there is there is a wider acceptance on the one hand , of erm , sort of freedom , erm , and I know we 're back to this idea of sexual freedom , but there is the violence within our society , and and the the the question probably is , are those two connected , as we give greater freedom on the one hand , do we get a higher incidence of violence on the other hand . |
| 11 | ‘ As long as we understand each other on that score , fair enough . ’ |
| 12 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 13 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
| 14 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 15 | The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep , mud-slick , heavily fortified hill . |
| 16 | And the supposed unfairness , or disparity of treatment , between plaintiff and defendant is more apparent than real ; at least in the present context , discovery is a device beloved of plaintiffs as they seek relevant material on which to rest their claims . |
| 17 | Its stairs and passages are crowded with students ; the air is loud with their shouts and laughter as they greet each other on the first day of the new term . |
| 18 | While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters . |
| 19 | Thus , Sprinter units working out of Derby depot , covering as they did stopping services on routes spread out as far as Leeds , Manchester , Cambridge , Aberystwyth , Pwllheli , Holyhead , Scarborough , Skegness and Cleethorpes , actually achieved annual mileages in excess of 100,000 miles per year , practically double that achieved by the older DMUs . |
| 20 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 21 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 22 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
| 23 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 24 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 25 | We can immediately rule out the adiabatic HDM model as it predicts insufficient structure on small scales , even taking into account nonlinear evolution . |
| 26 | Their trip was sponsored by a number of organisations , including LASMO , which was particularly keen to support the trip , as it places considerable emphasis on supporting environmental initiatives . |
| 27 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 28 | Robbie observed him through lowered lashes as he made hearty inroads on the food . |
| 29 | His eyes were still on her , as he kept one hand on the tiller and the other controlling the sail . |
| 30 | At the time , I decided that the slight tremor as he placed two cups on his office desk was due to nervousness at giving his first national magazine interview . |