Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The euphoria of Donna 's phone call slowly evaporated as the evening went on . |
| 2 | The consulting room was as sparsely furnished as the waiting cubicle ; two chairs , a desk and a telephone , in addition to the essential couch . |
| 3 | No record of the initial request is kept and the shape and style only evolves as the metal is worked . |
| 4 | The Consultation Draft which preceded the issue of the COB Rules explained that in order to carry on investment business of the same description ( and so qualify as a market counterparty ) , the putative market counterparty must carry on an activity in relation to a description of investment which both fall in the same paragraphs of Sched 1 to the FSA as the activity and investments of the firm . |
| 5 | It was a promise of sorts and one Harry found himself constantly remembering as the hours passed . |
| 6 | It was Owens who added the emotional element to Fingers Inc , but he and partners , Larry Heard and Ron Wilson , could only watch as the innovations they brought to house became a saleable commodity 18 months after business problems forced the group to disband . |
| 7 | I could only watch as the lightning lit up the windows and they struggled to get off that wall . ’ |
| 8 | THE nuclear debate can only heighten as the election draws near which means , as it will he mainly be between politicians , that it will get more incomprehensible . |
| 9 | Ma flashes Pa an amazed look ; Pa 's frown merely deepens as the Monster hurls itself up , over the tray of the high chair to belly flop on the table in a wreckage of china and dream topping . |
| 10 | Fiercely hit as the shot was , Lukic appeared well positioned to deal with it , but strangely dived underneath the flight rather than extending his arms to meet it . |
| 11 | User interfaces are not just pretty screen representations : as their use is extended they will come to express the whole nature of the system data model , and will probably become highly specialized as the interfaces move from function-oriented to task-oriented forms . |
| 12 | The principal aim of the research is to collect information about how the use of donor insemination to solve childlessness affects the members of the family so created as the child grows up . |
| 13 | Those are only acquired as the baby grows up and travels through life . |
| 14 | If you join us you will be trained to City & Guilds standards , the same as in the hotel and catering industry , so that after initial training you will be as highly qualified as a quality commis chef in civilian life . |
| 15 | The money was as shadowily outlined as the permission , but , like the EFR agreement itself , it revealed the government 's unwillingness to relinquish once and for all its place in the search for inexhaustible energy . |
| 16 | The village or small town most famous and most visited as the home of the Bronte family seems an unlikely destination for railway enthusiasts , but at Haworth station the preserved Keighley and Worth Valley Railway has its headquarters and museum , where there is a collection of locomotives and rolling stock . |
| 17 | Its somewhat irregular shape and measurements were presumably counteracted as the building rose above ground level . |
| 18 | Their busy preparations got slower and slower and finally halted as the realization dawned that the village was deserted , utterly deserted . |
| 19 | The imbalance , however , should soon disappear as the adult survivors of the war years die naturally . |
| 20 | If you have gained the impression that you are dealing with a balding manic-depressive axe-wielding lunatic , then I must hasten to add that I am generally regarded as a bit eccentric but quite harmless by my neighbours ! |
| 21 | For one thing it was not as easily won as the trust of adults , or children or animals . |
| 22 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 23 | Positive feedback enhances the initial release , but this is soon curtailed as the accumulation of calcium activates the negative feedback component . |
| 24 | To do so , it is necessary briefly to increase the rate of insertion of bricks at a particular point in the house — the roof — without changing the rate of removal ; bricks thus accumulate as the chimney is constructed . |
| 25 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 26 | But I was already choking as the noose tightened around my throat . |
| 27 | It was already buckling as the executive transporter moved remorselessly nearer . |
| 28 | The objective of data analysis is to produce a flexible model which can be easily adapted as the requirements of the users change . |
| 29 | The shriek of the plane 's engines drowned our voices , so Bonefish and I just watched as the plane sank towards Straker Cay 's small airstrip . |
| 30 | The hardened wheel of a pipe cutter will give a much neater cut : the adjusting handle is progressively tightened as the cutter is rotated around the pipe . |