Example sentences of "[adv] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cold , delicately as the dark snow , a fox 's nose touches twig , leaf . |
| 2 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
| 3 | The name " phenomenological " betrays its origins in University departments , but in ordinary language this approach is usually referred to loosely as the multi-faith or world religions approach . |
| 4 | One theory is that there used to be a group of cattle to the west of the Pennines and in the south west known loosely as the Red Wessex . |
| 5 | The Z1 Carbonate is also widely referred to as the Zechsteinkalk and in N.E. England it is known locally as the Lower and Middle Magnesian Limestone ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Richter-Bernburg 1955 ; Rhys 1975 ; Smith 1980 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ; Wagner et al . |
| 6 | The name Snaith is thought to mean ‘ enclosed by water ’ and the area is known locally as the Three Rivers area . |
| 7 | This is all that remains of a noble old building once owned by the Bishops of Rochester and known locally as the Old Palace . |
| 8 | We remember him most as the best diver ever to grace the Gorbals swimming pond . |
| 9 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 10 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 11 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 12 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 13 | Today , their legacy lives on as the British Pteridological Society ( BPS ) , which this year celebrates its centenary . |
| 14 | Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency . |
| 15 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 16 | Yes , life had come , but not as they had dreamed it , as the great liberator from restraint and narrowness , but rather as the great enemy , with which he had to fight , fight as he was still fighting today and must fight until the end , with never the hope of victory ! |
| 17 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 18 | Researchers always warn ‘ beginner ’ researchers of the dangers of being tempted into data analysis prematurely , eg as the first flow of questionnaires returning slows . |
| 19 | ‘ If the cities are to be saved as centres of a civilized urban life , and not plunged into gutted and fearful waste-lands … delinquency will have to be tackled as a problem with high priority — perhaps as the urban problem . |
| 20 | Even if they were first established in prehistoric times , knowledge use and even construction of leys may have continued well into the medieval period , perhaps as the secret inheritance of certain esoteric orders . |
| 21 | The Republic of Albania ( known hitherto as the Socialist People 's Republic of Albania ) adopted a new interim Constitution on April 29 , 1991 . |
| 22 | During the 1953 crisis he had operated literally as the strong arm of his father , General Zahedi . |
| 23 | You may know it better as the Holding Company . ’ |
| 24 | In a speech in 1938 , Buchman suggested that ‘ … nations must re-arm morally ’ and the phrase stuck , the Oxford Group becoming known thenceforward as the Moral Re-armament movement . |
| 25 | I shall not tell my clerks that there is anything out of the ordinary about this audit , and they will accept you quite naturally as the special representative of the bank . |
| 26 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 27 | In East Berlin on Feb. 7 the three left-wing citizens ' movements ( New Forum , Democracy Now and Initiative for Peace and Human Rights — by then all represented in the government ) agreed to campaign together as the Electoral Alliance " 90 ( Wahlbündnis " 90 ) . |
| 28 | It will be the first time that he and the Princess of Wales have attended together as the principal guests . |
| 29 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 30 | As for the two principals , they play well if not brilliantly together as the star-crossed lovers . |