Example sentences of "[art] world [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 2 | Agnes asked herself , and she thought : When we thrust out into the world just as we are , we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice , with that accident organized by the divine computer : to get over our surprise that precisely this ( what we see facing us in the mirror ) is our self . |
| 3 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 4 | It is notable that public holidays have become established in most parts of the world either as religious feast days , still treated as such , or have their origins in such occasions . |
| 5 | For all the world too as though a man who everyone knew — even his cousin who did n't work with him — was a workaholic , had never taken work home , it was most definitely a bit much . |
| 6 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 7 | Poets do not necessarily have to be commentators on the historic present ; there is a world within as well as a world without . |
| 8 | The fighting and horror stories from Bosnia seem a world away as fifteen refugee children and six of their mothers watch a video in Oxfordshire . |