Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 2 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 3 | As Isabella makes towards the waiting Mercedes , one of the Germans shouts : ‘ But we 've come all the way from Hamburg . ’ |
| 4 | Later , after work , I got a pretty good look at these new pants of ours , as Tod stood before the full-length mirror unknotting the plump Windsor of his tie . |
| 5 | Cranston leaned back as Joscelyn brought across the steaming platters of food . |
| 6 | The bright sunlight had straightened the ball 's flight-path , and as Gower fed on the short balls and what he converted into half-volleys , there were fleeting thoughts of a century before lunch , such was his willingness to go after runs . |
| 7 | The mast quivered and bowed as Trent dived for the main and jib sheets , whipping them clear of the cam cleats . |
| 8 | Charlie watched in horror as Makepeace fell across the barbed barrier and another burst of enemy bullets peppered his motionless body . |
| 9 | Although Graves pulled three points back with a penalty goal , there was no let-up as Gregory put over the second dropped goal of the season . |
| 10 | The two men were knocked aside as Corbett swung round the overturned wagon and broke into a gallop , clinging to his horse and hoping it would keep its feet on the rough rutted track . |
| 11 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 12 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 13 | As Brezhnev explained to the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , developments in Iran were ‘ complex and contradictory ’ but what had taken place was nonetheless an ‘ anti-imperialist revolution ’ . |
| 14 | The outside door opened and a man entered the house just as Frankie slipped through the other door into the dark corridor beyond . |
| 15 | The trouble with you , Katherine Jardine , is that you look too good in anything and everything , ’ Portia said wistfully as Katherine slipped into the borrowed blue silk dress with ruched sleeves . |
| 16 | For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn . |
| 17 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 18 | And as Pete emerged by the rocky edge of the water , he saw her . |
| 19 | Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the … polyneuritis … ’ he heard himself say , as Donald sneaked towards the medical dictionary , his big handsome head bowed with concern , his grey eyes looking into the distance , in the direction of the local tennis court . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't visiting time , you know , ’ she told Meg as Meg knocked on the open door . |
| 22 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 23 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
| 24 | The cancer screening , everybody must remember as Kevin said on the toxic shock erm motion , that it 's your wife , your sister , your daughter who needs the cancer screening , the same thing applies to the toxic shock syndrome . |
| 25 | It is , as Marx said of the mid-nineteenth-century French bureaucracy , ‘ well-gallooned and well-fed ’ . |
| 26 | A secretary inevitably had access to highly confidential information : as Pecquet wrote in the early eighteenth century , " silence , loyalty and secrecy should reign in every secretariat " . |
| 27 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 28 | OPENER David Boon hit a five-hour century yesterday as Australia struggled on the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies in Brisbane . |
| 29 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |
| 30 | As Bentham moved into the detailed drafting of the Code , this preparatory work was set aside , and it has never been published . |