Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | As sea-levels rise in the next 20–30 years due to the ‘ greenhouse ’ effect , this very practical use of GIS technology is likely to become commonplace and of considerable practical importance . |
| 6 | As communications improved during the 18th century , so the number of coaching inns or pubs situated at turnpikes increased . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A nation which experienced years of defeat and disaster ( as France did in the mid-fourteenth century ) beat its breast in self-reproach and accepted war 's afflictions . |
| 9 | In contrast to Clare , her sister Miranda was leading the fast and frivolous life of the exciting sixties as Britain launched into the first real business boom since Hitler 's war . |
| 10 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 11 | We know that kinetic energy increases as length raised to the fifth power . |
| 12 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 13 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 14 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 15 | There is little political controversy attached to the figure of the sovereign , for as Bagehot recognized in the nineteenth century , the successful constitutional monarch should be seen to be removed from politics . |
| 16 | In the last decade of her reign the yield of direct taxes , clerical subsidies , and forced loans averaged about £144,000 per annum , much the same in cash terms as Henry got in the last seven years of his reign . |