Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 2 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 3 | For just as Marx , when faced with the problem ‘ How does man make his history ? ’ replied with another question , ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ , so the proposal that the economic organisation of a society determines its superstructure should prompt us to ask how the base itself is determined . |
| 4 | The possibility of confusion is very great ; for just as Eleanor of Castile landed at Acre in 1270 , accompanying Edward on the seventh crusade , so Eleanor of Aquitaine had landed there 120 years before , accompanying her husband ( that is , her first , Louis VII of France ) on his crusade — which is presumably what Pound means by ‘ Acre , again ’ . |
| 5 | In the seventy fifth minute , City fell behind again as Steve Cowell crossed from the left to the far side , for Weesker to dive and squeeze a header just inside the post . |
| 6 | The faint murmur of voices could be heard from inside as Jennifer talked to the nurse . |
| 7 | And we 're born se again spiritually from above as Jesus says in this chapter . |
| 8 | All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK . |
| 9 | ‘ And Chemosh ’ ( the chief god of Moab , referred to below as Ashtar-Chemosh ) ‘ said to me , ‘ Go , take Nebo against Israel . ’ |
| 10 | " No , " Quiss said , shaking the attendant roughly so that the crownless brim round its cowl fell off , " I , " he shook it again , sending the thing 's hood flying off its head and revealing the smooth continuation of the mask over the creature 's skull , so that its little arms waggled trying to put the hood back on again as Quiss finished , " did n't . " |
| 11 | Hoping for another letter from Bill , I began watching our post as closely as Dickie . |
| 12 | Agrippa demanded at once as Catesby bolted the door behind us and scrutinised the long , low-ceilinged chamber as if eavesdroppers lurked in its very shadows . |
| 13 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 14 | ‘ Could Ernie go home at once as Youngs was on fire . ’ |
| 15 | Top : Escort and Orion line-up — not all came at once as Ford promised . |
| 16 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 17 | He seems to invite us to think of the circle as something which embodies , or is a continuing expression of , the motions which generate it ; and this involves our thinking of those motions in a way which makes them less like efficient causes than like formal causes , at least as Aristotle intended them . |
| 18 | This was so uncomfortably close to the truth — at least as Matilda had ordered it — that Isabel flushed guiltily . |
| 19 | I 'd joined in trying to control the thing by now as Gillian found she could n't manage curves on her own . |