Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 2 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 3 | The scent of jasmine greets you as you walk through a creepered archway into the wide lawn . |
| 4 | As long as you go at a slow , steady pace , the job can be done and you none the wiser . |
| 5 | An air-powered sponge filter or small , internal power filter will be adequate , o long as you stick to a proper maintenance regime and are not tempted to overstock . |
| 6 | like most of these these have , erm what I want to know is er why , when I was disposed of as you like as a useless article , why I am suddenly called upon by this government to be one hundred per cent , not fifty per cent responsible , but one hundred per cent responsible , not only for my children which I 'm quite happy to do , but one hundred per cent responsible to keep my wife off of benefit and one hundred per cent responsible if she should ever want one , t for her partner . |
| 7 | that as you move into a new form of behaviour |
| 8 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 9 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 10 | As we prepare for a new week 's challenges , may we too be contented , for the same reason as Paul , because our relationship with God is one of close fellowship ‘ in ’ Him . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrat candidate for Caerphilly yells after us as we sprint for a non-political platform . |
| 12 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 13 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 14 | As we pile into a rented car , I express my thanks for her portraits of a city which headlines and Hollywood love to distort . |
| 15 | That does not mean , however , that there is no role for MPs ( and other national legislators in the EC ) as we move through a transitional phase from a mainly inter-governmental type of Community to a more fully fledged federal union . |
| 16 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 17 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 18 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 19 | Kemp looks at her as they shrink within a dark cave , besieged by O'Brien and his men : |
| 20 | And he got the call last week to take his place in John Clarke 's panel as they bid for a record-breaking six-in-a-row triumph . |
| 21 | This finding has led to the suggestion that the hepatocyte pallisade may represent a lineage system within which cells mature as they pass from a peri-bile ductular position ot mature perivenular hepatocytes . |
| 22 | These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and do n't need pruning . |
| 23 | These assertions are made on the basis of research in modern ethology , and the arguments will not be discussed in any detail as they belong to a different universe of discourse from that of psychoanalysis and sociology . |
| 24 | ( Students who leave high school before the age of 18 are regarded as " dropouts " as they leave without a formal graduation certificate . ) |
| 25 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 26 | In the case of UA1 , for example , a gas-filled cylindrical detector surrounding the collision point senses the tracks of electrically-charged particles as they move through a magnetic field . |
| 27 | SEA-LION pups seem safe as they lounge on a Patagonian beach , slowly building their strength and preparing themselves for their departure into the sea . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 29 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |
| 30 | In the early stages of the inner-city study it was already evident that these rules were of historical and theoretical importance , as they lead to a regular series of alternations in derivationally related items . |