Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 2 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 3 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Financial constraints on investment were relatively unimportant and only developed subsequently as political concern with state enterprise deficits prompted efforts for greater commercialism . |
| 5 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 6 | A constitutional assessment would be highly recommended particularly as thrush tends to be a recurrent or chronic problem — see Conditions Requiring Constitutional Therapy on page 137 . |
| 7 | Should they be compulsorily edited so as to be accurate and balanced , that is censored ? |
| 8 | Throughout , Sartre has nevertheless taken it ‘ for granted that such a totalisation is constantly developing both as History and as historical Truth ’ ( I , 822 ) . |
| 9 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 10 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 11 | This was the first time that everyone else on the station at that time became aware of the danger , and they could only watch helplessly as the child stood petrified with fright between the rails . |
| 12 | He could only watch helplessly as Paula was hurled headfirst into the canoe floating nearby . |
| 13 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 14 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 15 | Minerva Beaton could hardly keep her long face straight as she sawed her cello . |
| 16 | The stones threw long , flaring shadows that suggested the shape of some ancient harp , only lengthening imperceptibly as the sun 's angle grew more oblique . |
| 17 | Dot wanted to tell her how they were much better staying just as they were . |
| 18 | And he , well he 's , he was wealthy enough to do exactly as he wanted . |
| 19 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 20 | Above : In 1901 regulations added a pair of shoulder straps to the white undress coat , and insignia of branch , unit and rank were thenceforward displayed exactly as on the khaki field blouse ; this coat bears the insignia of a captain of the 23rd Infantry . |
| 21 | The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow . |
| 22 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 23 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 24 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 25 | Unthinkingly she let her eyes stray to his face , only to flinch abruptly as she realised his deep blue eyes were focused on her , their expression strangely sardonic . |
| 26 | Once , the Everqueen could easily have banished the daemon , but her power was much reduced even as her land was ravaged . |
| 27 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 28 | ON DAYS like Christmas and New Year 's Day , the ancient game of piggie , better known now as tip-cat , was played . |
| 29 | The tip of the syringe is then inserted from the side of the mouth , and the plunger gently depressed so as not to cause the medication to run out of the mouth . |
| 30 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |