Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As William Atkinson observed in 1805 , cottagers were more intelligent and industrious where fuel was cheap , for a comfortable fireside on winter evenings ‘ promotes social mirth , and instructive conversation ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , as William James implied in 1884 , emotion is a serious challenge to reflex models of behaviour because it implies experience without action . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , as Ian Harper reveals in Personal Finance , that too places unconscionable constraints on those companies that wish to grow and more may be forced to follow Scottish Equitable 's example of doing a deal with a big external investor , if not go for wholesale demutualisation . |
| 4 | As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built . |
| 5 | As Richard Baxter wrote in 1681 , ‘ Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth in a God , and whose business in the world is most with God . |
| 6 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | If , as Anthony Giddens suggests in Central Problems in Social Theory ( 1979 ) , one of the characteristics of ideology is that it makes the present appear natural , then this something else may be the province of ideology . |
| 8 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 9 | Pressure mounts as Bond shares slide to 10-year low |
| 10 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 11 | THE PRESENT generation of scientists is not the first to have been troubled by problems of communication , as Dr Slaughter shows in this well documented account of the rise and fall of the 17th century universal movement . |
| 12 | Under the guidance of Loudon , Disraeli 's reformist landowners and manufacturers could find their way from fiction into fact , as Jane Loudon suggests by this incident , recounted in her biographical note upon her husband : |
| 13 | Lloyd reached 100 in just 128 balls with a six and 11 boundaries in a thrilling run blitz as England A raced to 300 for five declared , leaving Western Australia to score 402 for victory in just over a day . |
| 14 | Faced with an actor reading , as Alan Bates did for much of his one-man show at Edinburgh this year , you 're tempted to conclude that he 's a little under-rehearsed . |
| 15 | A patio which spends most of the day in the shadow has called for ingenuity and imagination , as Gill Page discovered in michael Blood 's bijou garden … |
| 16 | As Stephen Kanfer trumpeted in 1972 in Time magazine , |
| 17 | If I could produce the same effect on other people as Louis Armstrong does with that song , then I 'd be really happy . |
| 18 | But there was a favourable movement in the mix of export business as bottled-in-Scotland volume increased by 12 per cent . |
| 19 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 20 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 21 | But that would be more than offset by other tax increases as Mr Lamont looks for extra funds to tackle the ballooning PSBR deficit , likely to be about £45 billion next year . |
| 22 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 23 | It exploded just as Mr Major called in 20 more Tory rebels in another desperate bid to save the Maastricht Bill , and lift the question mark still hanging over his own political future . |
| 24 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 25 | As Harold Laski wrote in 1925 : ‘ Anyone who studies the record of war-control of industry from 1914 to 1918 , will be amazed at the mass of material we possess upon the necessary mechanisms of regulation . ’ |
| 26 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 27 | As Daniel Rogers warned in 1642 , ‘ No prison can be more irksome than a son or daughter 's house ’ . |
| 28 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 29 | There is now a 30 million tonne ‘ world record ’ grain surplus , as Boris Johnson showed on 19 October 1991 in the Spectator . |
| 30 | The commitment to ring fence for as long as necessary , as Baroness Hooper said in another place , will allow the Secretary of State arbitrarily to decide that , if he wishes to allocate the funds to some other project , he could deem the necessity to have ceased . |