Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move was apparently intended to deflect the current wave of protests , increasingly directed at Ratsiraka personally as the 16-party opposition Comité de forces vives coalition pressed for his resignation . |
| 2 | There is also a great advantage in regenerating large columes of previously cooked food on high throughout operations only as the demand occurs . |
| 3 | This description fits a young fish of one variation , but the colours and patterning change somewhat as the fish matures . |
| 4 | There were voices outside as the train came alive . |
| 5 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
| 6 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 7 | If you apply force just as the swing attains its maximum height and begins to drop , you add energy most efficiently , in synchrony with the swing 's cycle . |
| 8 | However , this seems to be a red herring , since the standard Buck topology uses a pair of inductors ( though not coupled ) and a single transistor switch just as the Cuk topology does , but need no other energy coupling device . |
| 9 | I entered Dover at nightfall just as the sky darkened and rain began to beat down on my plumed cap . |
| 10 | But all of them are individuals — with hopes , needs , desires , feelings of pain or pleasure just as the rest of us have . |
| 11 | All the nomes stood stock still as the noises went on around them . |
| 12 | In Sexual Politics , for example , Kate Millett sees Freud simply as the proponent of a biologistic theory of male supremacy , and as one of the arch-villains in the male plot of patriarchy . |
| 13 | The explosion lifted the ship a few feet clear out of the water , smashing the superstructure against the low tunnel roof even as the hull burst open with a blaze of fire . |
| 14 | Yet it was hard to make a good living here as the Peruvians did not seem to like their own music . |
| 15 | These crash boats made a great noise , and part of the plan was to fly Anson aircraft overhead as the run was made to the beach , this being timed to a nicety . |
| 16 | Our forward planning is designed to enable us to take stock precisely as the Select Committee advocated . |
| 17 | ‘ And I do n't want to — ’ He cut off his words abruptly as the outer door opened . |
| 18 | Margaret closed her eyes tightly as the ruler came down hard six times across her palm . |
| 19 | The Volvo fared little better but Donna closed her eyes tightly as the impact hurled her forward again and sent her crashing against the steering column with enough force to knock the breath from her . |
| 20 | Since then only a few have carried the flame in Europe and India , but recently the worldwide growth of homœopathy has started to look again at the LM potencies which Hahnemann describes , in a footnote to 270 as being ‘ the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action i.e. as the most perfected . ’ |
| 21 | She dropped the inch or two down into her seat again as the train began to move . |
| 22 | The big houses are selling up ; they are in as much dire distress financially as the working classes . |
| 23 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 24 | Talking of which , ’ she glanced at her watch just as the phone rang , ‘ I should n't be here . ’ |
| 25 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 26 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 27 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 28 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 29 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 30 | You go not just for the rides ( one of the most popular , Earthquake , puts you in San Francisco just as the Big One hits ) but for the chance to see how filmmakers , animators and special effects wizards all conspire to create the magic of film . |