Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as Moscow may , on grounds of economic sense , welcome a more integrated economic policy , she would not wish to see institutional machinery set up which compromised these discrete , private channels of manipulation and control . |
| 2 | Much as CND may distance itself from these groups , its rhetoric and practice of opposition is an open invitation for their malign political presence . |
| 3 | MUCH as Dallas would like to wipe the assassination of John Kennedy from its memory , it can not . |
| 4 | It had hung in Maggie 's bedroom for as long as Phoebe could remember : she had not looked at it properly for years . |
| 5 | Each month , for as long as Peter could remember , she had gone through the bank statement and done the accounts . |
| 6 | For as long as Ruth could remember , huge red roses had sprawled across the kitchen walls , fading gradually to a sandy brown against the yellowed background . |
| 7 | Fighting will continue for as long as UNITA can smuggle in supplies , most of which are thought to reach the rebels by way of Zaire . |
| 8 | Prices have gone up and up for as long as Texas can remember . |
| 9 | Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember . |
| 10 | For as long as Sinitta can recall , she has owned a dog . |
| 11 | His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , that might do , ’ said Peggy thoughtfully , ‘ especially as Rosalind wo n't be back home yet . |
| 13 | I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers . |
| 14 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 15 | Harry Andrews , who was also in their scenes , told me , ‘ Trevor was quite sickened by the sum Brando was being paid , especially as Brando could n't seem to remember his lines and had to read his dialogue off boards . ’ |
| 16 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 17 | Just as Marlowe can choose to enter into purely fantastical land of his own making , which caters for his own desires and ignores that which he is unable to cope with in the real world , Marvell can slip into his garden and is free , for a period , from the ball and chain of the world he flees from . |
| 18 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 19 | Evgeny Onegin would have been written even if Pushkin had never existed , claims Brik , just as America would have been discovered without Columbus . |
| 20 | Just as Jesus will rise from the dead after the suffering and death , so those who accept his challenge to become disciples will find life : |
| 21 | The change-manager will no doubt contemplate the required strategy before releasing his ( or her ) proposals , just as Quinn would suggest , but he will still need to be adept at riding the waves of change . |
| 22 | A law of nature was the last word ; and just as God could not break a law of logic ( by making something both red and green all over , for example ) , so it was felt that He could not break a law of nature . |
| 23 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 24 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 25 | He was concerned that the room must be left just as Durance would have wished . |
| 26 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 27 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 28 | However , the ‘ Intel inside ’ has now become Intel outside as Intel will manufacture a range of computers , using the 486SX and DX processors , for Amstrad . |
| 29 | ‘ It all started as soon as Joanne could speak , ’ she said . |
| 30 | but as soon as Philip ca n't do what she wants him to do I E run to the door |