Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to say nothing and quietly placed the bird by the gate leading to the Hauxwell 's place , with its head tucked in as though asleep . |
| 2 | They must be mad that they should expect such a delicate business as his preparation of Vologsky to be speeded up as though it was a crude operation on a factory bench . |
| 3 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 4 | From time to time other sections may be needed but lists can be made up as and when they are required for specific projects . |
| 5 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 6 | I have no desire to be watched over as though I were a child — but I promise I 'll let you know if I have any problems . ’ |
| 7 | Told retrospectively as though from Judd 's disjointed , unhappy remembering , the book achieves a sad , distant , emotional intensity which gives it a special unity of tone . |
| 8 | It effectively enables you to have the system powered up as though you had already logged in and used Option 7.5.0 to set facilities available/unavailable . |
| 9 | If the job already exists a job specification should still be drawn up as though the job were being created from scratch . |
| 10 | Over this , replace the foam , which will then act as a prefilter and which can be washed out as and when it clogs . |
| 11 | The expert capable of detecting a Raphael at ten paces is admired almost as though he partook of the genius of the artist himself , and can be guaranteed at least a modest fame in the mass media . |
| 12 | Instead , it has been suggested that the object tends towards presentational form , which can not be broken up as though into grammatical sub-units , and as such it appears to have a particularly close relation to emotions , feelings and basic orientations to the world . |
| 13 | And when you 've er loose them in the fore end or the front of the lock or do anything like that that article as it 's in , when you lock it out it 's got ta fit just as tight when it 's locked out as when it 's in . |
| 14 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 15 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 16 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 17 | Additional labour is brought in as and when required , and is brought in almost exclusively on a casual basis . |
| 18 | The words were spoken mechanically as though by a bad actor . |
| 19 | These are laid out as though the Royal Family were in residence : an enormous jigsaw is barely started , a stuffed corgi lies beside a desk and , at Balmoral , a dog basket has its own heraldic blanket , while a headscarf is tossed on one side . |
| 20 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |
| 21 | Purposely pulled apart as when , torn to scraps |
| 22 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 23 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 24 | The dresser drawers fallen out and spilled , the dishes from the shelves above in fragments on the floor , the chairs thrown about as though by a madman , the table upended and even the black kettle from the hob lying among the debris . |
| 25 | This can be expressed compactly as where the Kronecker delta is defined to be unity if α is equal to β but zero otherwise . |