Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 2 | In his English writings Richard Rolle , too , sees Christ 's suffering as the pragmatic key to a form of living both as regards external circumstances and internal consciousness , which will free followers to engage with the ineffable reality of the love mediated at the Incarnation . |
| 3 | Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages . |
| 4 | Those who believe that the growth of planned economy brings with it the possibility ( on the narrow basis of the dying out of the law of value ) of acting just as one pleases , do not understand the ABC of economic science . |
| 5 | They could use the possibility of buying outside as bargaining leverage to get better performance from their own provider " ( Enthoven 1985 : 40 ) . |
| 6 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 7 | But the anterior of many other dinosaurs was aligned alongside and parallel to the posterior bone ( the ischium ) , instead of pointing forwards as with the saurischians . |
| 8 | ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club . |
| 9 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 10 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 11 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 12 | Picasso was quite capable of working conventionally as well as experimentally , and Max Jacob himself was not keen on the drawing , which made him look ‘ very much the old peasant ’ . |
| 13 | But , as already emphasised , the problem of meaning here as elsewhere does not reduce to the problem of criteria . |
| 14 | But growing up and learning how she ought to feel and behave , what she ought to value , means that she has to give up doing just as she pleases . |
| 15 | In particular , to be a " regular casual " working more or less continuously for one organisation is incompatible with working only as and when one chooses . |
| 16 | ‘ Do — do you condemn her too , mademoiselle , for running away as she did ? ’ |
| 17 | HERO pilot Dane Crosby coolly saved the crew of his rescue helicopter from drowning yesterday as he ditched in raging seas . |
| 18 | Far from dying away as the century progressed , this anti-Darwinian and anti-adaptationist view of evolution became more powerful . |
| 19 | Knowing where to look can be a danger if it completely stops us from looking elsewhere as well . |
| 20 | Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended . |
| 21 | But God knows I do n't say Harry told them wittingly , for I know him , too , and know him as stubborn in holding fast as any grown man among us . |
| 22 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 24 | But these workers had a " guts feeling " that if things were designed to last much longer and an infrastructure was set up to repair them , at least as much work would be created in doing so as was available in the capital-intensive mass production lines producing the throw-away goods . |
| 25 | The chair or commode has to be correctly positioned , for instance , and firmly secured to prevent it from slipping away as the patient is moved . |
| 26 | In hiding now as wheels of iron go round |
| 27 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 28 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 29 | Each bar has a paper sheath which is lightly scored to allow for peeling away as the Oilbar is used . |
| 30 | Harvest the flower spikes for drying just as the flowers begin to unfold . |