Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where directorate systems work well , there seems to be an increase in staff morale and greater co-operation between professional groups as they cohere around an integrated programme of patient care . |
| 2 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 3 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 4 | Most ( although not all ! ) horses do become less worried about strange objects as they get older , but some old horses are just plain silly about some things , but it is mostly a bit of a game to them and if ignored , they soon settle down ! |
| 5 | He was a dry , spinsterish man whom Paul disliked , and who could voice his narrow opinions as he chose , having means of his own . |
| 6 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 7 | I must be brave for Perdita 's sake , said Daisy through chattering teeth as she pressed the door bell . |
| 8 | Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run . |
| 9 | It was the only way of contesting that ‘ bourgeois reason ’ which , for him , was as much a feature of left-wing political programmes as it was of traditional colonial domination . |
| 10 | Yes , we grieve when tragedy strikes in such awful forms as we have seen recently . |
| 11 | The men also tended to have different political views as they came from such a huge and diverse country . |
| 12 | Protests by hundreds of Dutch , Scandinavian , West German and British people fell on deaf ears as they were turned away . |
| 13 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 14 | to advise the Secretary of State on such matters concerned with the curriculum for maintained schools as he may refer to it or as it may see fit |
| 15 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 16 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 17 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 18 | I heard two loud bangs as I was watching the television . ’ |
| 19 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 20 | He pulled a high stool from beneath the breakfast bar , the denim jeans he was wearing tightening over his muscular thighs as he sat down . |
| 21 | Recent trends in the geography of voting in Great Britain pose major problems for all political parties as they develop strategies for the next general election . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're going to pay for that , you son-of-a-bitch , ’ the man hissed through clenched teeth as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand . |
| 23 | ‘ Fourteen , ’ said Cardiff through gritted teeth as they continued to climb . |
| 24 | There was no deterioration in that lovely running style , but the strain showed in his sunken eye sockets and through his gritted teeth as he circled the track to the bitter and glorious end . |
| 25 | ‘ A lesson to be learned here , Devlin , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he raised his other hand in front of Jimmy 's face . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he set off down the corridor . |
| 27 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 28 | But she did not answer him , only bent and lowered herself into the water , hissing as the coldness burned into the wound , a faint moan escaping through her gritted teeth as she began to wash . |
| 29 | There are , however , not so many medieval houses as you might expect to find . |
| 30 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |