Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC chairman flies in as Birt row deepens |
| 2 | The red switch there being right on the end when you depress that the play switch goes down as well . |
| 3 | When this happens , one can see clearly displayed just the convulsions and contortions the lava goes through as it flows : the bands are tightly folded in tortuous patterns . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted to catch the way his mouth goes down as well as up . |
| 5 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 6 | This figure acts variously as the symbol and chief bearer of the admirably strong , tightly-knit family and culture , as the oppressed subject of traditional Asian patriarchal practices , as a problem because of her failure to learn the language and customs which might allow a smoother integration of her community and children into ‘ the British way of life ’ , and full of sexual charm and allure produced by a demure seductiveness replete with the promise of a mysterious Oriental eroticism . |
| 7 | … the extent to which Leapor 's writing represents female eroticism as transgressive , situates it in relation to sapphic textuality , and exposes the necessary construction of such alternative desires within as well as against the very terms of heterosexual propriety from which they are generated |
| 8 | When maximum gust speed exceeds 30 knots , the salt content of the wind increases proportionally as there is more sea spray , and the spray tends to be carried further inland . |
| 9 | Reynard backs off as she extends a foul paw . |
| 10 | Tonight — the stock market soars and the pound strengthens dramatically as Britain joins the E R M , but Labour warns the Chancellor will use these statistics to argue that : |
| 11 | We watch , and the pink spreads downwards as the sun rises behind us . |
| 12 | Oh yes the light comes on as you open the door does n't it ? |
| 13 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |
| 14 | I have already questioned the absolute relevance of attitude measures , but if they do measure some at least of the effect of advertising , some of the time , the general slowness of movement of these measures implies , at least , that such change occurs gradually as a result of the cumulative build-up of the message of the campaign . |
| 15 | The company , which employs 70 staff , say work goes on as usual , the fire was confined to a storage area . |
| 16 | Since recall goes up as precision goes down , it is clearly not possible to achieve a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision . |
| 17 | Although curriculum development support units in different local education authorities , and the EC Pilot Project : Community Languages in the Secondary Curriculum have assisted in the printing and distribution of individually produced materials , this assistance has not as yet proved to offer a viable return in either pedagogical or financial terms . |
| 18 | Using this — it is optional — the machine 's processing capacity grows linearly as new processors are added , from a claimed one 1 GFLOPS to 8 GLOPS with the maximum of 64 processors on board . |
| 19 | On most machines , the insert ends automatically as the counter reaches zero again . |
| 20 | are not susceptible of any … precise definition as would be necessary to give them utility as practical tests , but amount to the features of different specific situations which , on a detailed examination of all the circumstances , the law recognises pragmatically as giving rise to a duty of care of a given scope . |
| 21 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 22 | The voltage at pins 8 and 9 must instantaneously follow pin 11 and go high as well , but this voltage falls exponentially as capacitor C1 charges up . |
| 23 | Little is known about how and why these last two conditions are helped , but it is known that protection against osteoporosis lasts only as long as the treatment is taken . |
| 24 | Princess tucks in as tour rolls on |
| 25 | But looting continues apace as locals try to supplement their monthly earnings of around $3 a month . |
| 26 | and take and her card and then her folder comes out as you take it . |
| 27 | An interaction exists just as it does in river processes . |
| 28 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 29 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
| 30 | It is noteworthy that this author has not as yet published any papers relating to his thesis , and so authors wishing to refer to his work have no choice but to cite the original thesis . |