Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed . |
| 2 | I 'm speaking here of the period of conventional warfare by the way , this is not the case with nuclear war as I shall show in a later lecture . |
| 3 | I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak . |
| 4 | For these technical reasons , the Audio Visual machine is much more advanced , and would not have to upgraded within a relatively short time , as I would fear with the 3M machine . |
| 5 | As I would disagree with the notion that we are taking anything away from society , the notion of ‘ putting something back ’ may sound misplaced . |
| 6 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 7 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 8 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 9 | Mm No that 's er making me jolly cross , not like myself I do n't do anything like , not as much as I used to do at the hall , I mean I used to do a lot as you know , but I , I know how much you have done , but nobody else knows |
| 10 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 11 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 12 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 13 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 14 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 15 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 16 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 17 | In fact , as far as I could judge from the old hearing system , the effect on Quigley was fairly stupendous . |
| 18 | ‘ No , Sir John , he did not , as I will explain in a while . |
| 19 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 20 | Sal continued working as a waitress in a cafe on the Commercial Road , but Charlie knew she could n't wait to find someone willing to marry her — whatever physical shape he was in — just as long as I can sleep in a room of my own , she explained . |
| 21 | And I can confirm ( for the benefit of Glenn , I think it was ) that Howard Wilkinson is not a member either , as far as I can tell from the list . |
| 22 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 23 | yes , as far as I can see with the other one 's |
| 24 | this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for . |
| 25 | At leat that 's as much as I can remember until the next morning when I woke up with my head in an invisible , sealed gold-fish bowl of pain . |
| 26 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 27 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 28 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 29 | As you would expect of a gas cooker with such an advanced hotplate , the controls of the new Discovery are equally sophisticated . |
| 30 | And as you would expect in a town of enterprise , some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use . |