Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Instead the Army welcomes the differences among the British , as long as everyone acknowledges a fundamental allegiance to Queen and country .
2 Attitude Not easily measurable but has clearly improved as everyone sees a definite objective and a defined route to achieving it .
3 So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable .
4 As I reach the open air on the far side of the back cover , having emerged from a cavern called the dungeon of lust , ten thousand voices will greet me with a joyous shout .
5 The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes .
6 Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses , but I do prefer ones with a little ‘ common ’ blood , as I like a stronger build of horse .
7 Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses , but I do prefer ones with a little ‘ common ’ blood , as I like a stronger build of horse .
8 By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark .
9 As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated .
10 ‘ Good gracious , that was close ’ I said , as I heard a God-Almighty thud .
11 My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch .
12 As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea .
13 I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all .
14 Fenella must have heard me , as she appeared at her door as I reached the first landing .
15 I came across the garden 's central pavilion quite by chance , stumbling on it as I followed a dried water-course .
16 My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths .
17 We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea .
18 As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course .
19 I know , as I had a strict upbringing .
20 As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London .
21 Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ …
22 She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all .
23 And yet with each succeeding year both my guilt and inferiority somehow diminish as I witness the old country ways vanish .
24 But as I surveyed the grand vista of my 47 ft plot , one fact became clear : in their struggle for power , many of my shrubs were now far too big for their boots .
25 As I passed the palatial ship of Gharr the Gherpotean , I saw that it was shut up tight , with no sign of activity .
26 I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door .
27 Now Lynne Taylor is Regional Executive for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association , Lynne er is it , this is er as I said a new week , are , you hopeful that it 's , it 's working well ?
28 But our affair wo n't end until desire ends , and , as I said the other night , we 've not done with each other yet . ’
29 You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not .
30 My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder .
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