Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This description fits a young fish of one variation , but the colours and patterning change somewhat as the fish matures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I entered Dover at nightfall just as the sky darkened and rain began to beat down on my plumed cap . |
| 7 | But all of them are individuals — with hopes , needs , desires , feelings of pain or pleasure just as the rest of us have . |
| 8 | All the nomes stood stock still as the noises went on around them . |
| 9 | Through the opened curtain Carolyn saw the dawn dimness light up as the rising sun emerged over the rim of the world and the quiet undertow of bird clatter rose to a crescendo of calls and squawks . |
| 10 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 11 | He turned the light out as the clergyman left the room . |
| 12 | The Rules only apply to solicitors practising as such overseas ; practice purely as a local lawyer is subject only to the local professional rules . |
| 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 | Our forward planning is designed to enable us to take stock precisely as the Select Committee advocated . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She dropped the inch or two down into her seat again as the train began to move . |
| 18 | The big houses are selling up ; they are in as much dire distress financially as the working classes . |
| 19 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 20 | Talking of which , ’ she glanced at her watch just as the phone rang , ‘ I should n't be here . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
| 25 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 26 | Some approaches , including the conventional account of the industrial revolution , certain Marxist analyses and business-oriented researches , appear to emphasize productive forces as the prime mover , and are concerned with consumption only as the outcome of capitalist interests and the problem of ensuring that desire and demand correspond with the needs of industry . |
| 27 | However , Geoffrey Holton 's imminent retirement complicated the issue especially as the UK involvement had been up-graded from mere participation in a Zambian investigation to full responsibility for carrying out the investigation . |
| 28 | With strength born of desperation , Craig heaved himself up and pushed his way through the broken window just as the door burst open below him . |
| 29 | They would blaze into prominence just as the foreground planting was falling to pieces . |
| 30 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |