Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it , it shows come on I 'm gon na hit the brake , he 's got a chuffing accelerator pedal , a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and he 's banging like this and it 's brake 's not working prop it 's , it 's funny , but there was a bloody tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian , and he 's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it on this tent , it 's funny , I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it . |
| 2 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 3 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 4 | Hence , Gillian Shephard 's unspirited response yesterday as the crude jobless count rose once more beyond three million ( the seasonally-adjusted total will follow it next month ) . |
| 5 | Funny girl Pamela Stephenson looked like she 'd joined the smile-high club yesterday as she jetted into Britain with pop star George Michael . |
| 6 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 7 | On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank . |
| 8 | This sentence can nevertheless be paraphrased by " If someone were to fall , he would unquestionably die " : the to infinitive evokes a hypothetical action here as well , i.e. an action to be avoided . |
| 9 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 10 | They were probably not much changed since long before Vincent Van Gogh : the Phoenician auspicious eyes , white circled dot , were painted on the high prow then as in 1888 . |
| 11 | Come testing time , though , it was a different story altogether as Farr-Jones 's side put on an awesome second-half display in the rain and mud at Newlands . |
| 12 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 13 | Those whom he taught within St Victor provoked the criticism of a younger fellow-canon , Richard , that they were ‘ judaizing ’ — that is , understanding the Old Testament primarily as Jews rather than as Christians . |
| 14 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) In order to determine whether any particular item of information falls within the implied term so as to prevent its use for disclosure by an employee after his employment has ceased , it is necessary to consider all the circumstances of the case . |
| 16 | In 1905 its general manager and Wilson 's arch opponent , Cuthbert Laws , could claim thirty-six operational registry offices at the principal ports of the kingdom , a capacity to move free labour anywhere as required , equipment and stores to maintain 5,000 men , nine-tenths of UK seagoing tonnage in membership and an invested capital of almost £200 mn . |
| 17 | Of course , Freud 's own writings take both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives fully into account , and in this sense he is the true father of social psychoanalysis just as he is that of its clinical sibling . |
| 18 | THE Princess of Wales maintained a dignified poise yesterday as renewed speculation about her marriage threatened to upset her visit with Prince Charles to South Korea . |
| 19 | And erm at the same time there was an old mill there as well , with an old er engine room . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But there have been errors too , with Pilkington investing in foreign glass capacity during the 1980s , at the peak of a cycle which soon slumped , leaving the St Helens based group with over capacity just as the down turn arrived . |
| 22 | In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes . |
| 23 | ‘ His name is Craig Grenfell , ’ Hari said , folding the damp towel neatly as though it was the most important thing in the world . |
| 24 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 25 | There was nothing precious about the playing — no feeling of careful compromise so as to accommodate the work 's problems , and certainly , to hornist Frank Lloyd 's playing , one can listen , whatever the technical complexities , in the comfortable knowledge that nothing will slip between bell and lip . |
| 26 | Once this is conceded , then enquiries into the exact details and minutiae of the sexual behaviour so as to announce on its legal pedigree become redundant . |
| 27 | ‘ Hand it to your funny friend just as it is . |
| 28 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 29 | ‘ But why so many British ladies ? ’ asked the young German student bemusedly as 60–odd enthusiasts of all ages tumbled off the coach at the Medau College in Coburg . |
| 30 | In order to secure a " constitutional premiership " that is less powerful and more accountable to the party and parliament , there are those within the Labour Party who would wish to change the British constitution so as to restrict the powers of a Prime Minister . |