Example sentences of "as [noun] [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 | Energy demand is likely to increase by some 90% in the Middle East over the rest of the century as industrialisation continues in the major oil exporters . |
| 3 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 4 | As Isabella makes towards the waiting Mercedes , one of the Germans shouts : ‘ But we 've come all the way from Hamburg . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps a little less improbable , and certainly a possibility , is that a change in the savings products offered by other intermediaries could cause an increase in the early termination , or ‘ surrender ’ , of policies as savers switched to the other products . |
| 7 | It will become an increasing necessity as institutions move towards the 1990 's and attempt to broaden the base of their student intake ; initial teacher education courses will hopefully have a much wider range of students on their courses . |
| 8 | As time passes C t increases to ω and this period of temporary imitation dwindles away as play tends to the full information limit . |
| 9 | Cranston leaned back as Joscelyn brought across the steaming platters of food . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The mast quivered and bowed as Trent dived for the main and jib sheets , whipping them clear of the cam cleats . |
| 12 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 13 | I find them extremely depressing but I shall go on slogging away until my term as chairman ends in the early summer . ’ |
| 14 | Friends of the Earth , however , has claimed that these figures are artificially inflated as money spent on the cleaner gas programme needed to be spent anyway . |
| 15 | One or two odd shapes were found , but most authorities dismissed these as patterns produced by the physical processes of rock formation that had nothing whatever to do with living organisms . |
| 16 | Charlie watched in horror as Makepeace fell across the barbed barrier and another burst of enemy bullets peppered his motionless body . |
| 17 | Your army must include at least 25% of its points value as units chosen from the following list ; it may include more if you wish . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As journalists gathered near the terraced house where one boy was arrested , neighbours were becoming restless . |
| 20 | As opposition mounts to the proposed threat of 9,000 tonnes of limestone switching from rail to road , villages throughout North Yorkshire go on the alert amid growing fears over safety . |
| 21 | On average cars sold in the US consume around 28.1 mpg , according to Environmental Protection Agency statistics , twice as efficient as cars sold in the 1970s but with little change in the past seven years . |
| 22 | Secondly , if we look at return maps , as r passes through the critical region they start to change so that they resemble Fig. 6.10 . |
| 23 | Dodging the shell bursts ' debris as branches fell from the large wahrazin trees above shallow trenches by the headquarters , Bernard Callinan could not make out what craft was shelling them , but through the mist he could hear the rumble of small boats ' engines . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In this sense it is first and foremost the executive agency of the mind and is charged with the fundamental functions of decision-making and surveillance of the input from the senses as well as sensations arising from the instinctual drives of the id . |
| 26 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |