Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [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 | Sit back as you go on a five billion year journey through the evolution of life — all in twelve minutes ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | that as you move into a new form of behaviour |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Liberal Democrat candidate for Caerphilly yells after us as we sprint for a non-political platform . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus , using the distinction between mechanistic and organic organisations we can argue that insofar as we live in an uncertain world where political consensus is not guaranteed and economic stability is not assured then our public sector organisations ought to be moving more towards an organic , and away from , a mechanistic structure . |
| 16 | As we pile into a rented car , I express my thanks for her portraits of a city which headlines and Hollywood love to distort . |
| 17 | ( c. 1100–1171 ) , abbot of St Victor and bishop of Avranches , was born in England and educated in France , as we learn from an early collection of Victorine epitaphs — ‘ Huius oliua domus , Anglorum gloria cleri ’ — and from another , later epitaph , which begins , ‘ Anglia me genuit , docuit me Gallia ’ ( Bonnard , vol. i , p. 204 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There has to a meaningful comparison between the CAA 's charging policy and those of its EC counterparts as we move into an integrated European system . |
| 20 | It matters less and less as we move into an enjoyable account derived from a vocational puller-down of statues of the Shah and his father . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He takes her arm as they go for a closer look . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His collected resolve in front of his officers is assuring his troops ' confidence in his controlled capacity to lead them as they prepare for an impending battle . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Kemp looks at her as they shrink within a dark cave , besieged by O'Brien and his men : |
| 27 | I consider prepositions in prepositional phrases to be non-deictic , as they relate to an internal system in the way that , say , aspect relates to tense . |
| 28 | Spurs are missing six first-teamers , including Anderton , Paul Allen and Gordon Durie , as they bid for a fifth successive clean sheet against Manchester City at Maine Road today . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |