Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also checked her urine for sugar as she now had vaginal thrush although this was probably due to the antibiotics . |
| 2 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 3 | As the books have appeared simultaneously , it is difficult not to compare them , especially as they frequently reach different conclusions . |
| 4 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 5 | As they often occupy cramped sites , London Board schools are usually multi-storey buildings . |
| 6 | Finally , women who are actively anorectic and weigh 85% or less of average expected body weight may not be suitable for referral to a group as they often experience physiological urges to binge as a result of emaciation . |
| 7 | Orfe are ideal inhabitants for a planted pond , as they only eat small amounts of plant material . |
| 8 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 9 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 10 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 11 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 12 | It was an artistic relationship that ultimately cost the composer his life as he repeatedly delayed vital heart surgery to complete the role that he knew would also be Pears 's last . |
| 13 | — we are concerned with all but the first three , as he clearly meant poor small-holders by " farmers " in his fifth category . |
| 14 | ‘ Where 's Terry ? ’ he demanded as he expertly spooned instant coffee into numerous cups . |