Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
2 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
3 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
4 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
5 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |
6 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
7 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
8 | Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance . |
9 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
10 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
11 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
12 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |
13 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
14 | People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car . |
15 | Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time . |
16 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
17 | Publishers which are already negotiating in Russia over translation rights will welcome the British Council/Publishers Association scheme — as they will the Russian government 's assurance in London last month that it will repay all the former Soviet Union 's to UK and other Western publishers . |
18 | In 1915 Dicey wrote that although federalism possessed a ‘ vague , and therefore the strong and imaginative , charm ’ there is ‘ good reason to fear that the federalisation of the United Kingdom , stimulating as it would the disruptive force of local nationalism , might well arouse a feeling of divided allegiance ’ . |
19 | When it comes to asking who or what theists consider God to be , on the other hand , any answer must embrace as far as it can the full spectrum of religious opinion . |
20 | He took her hand in his and stroked it gently , as he might an unhappy child 's . |