Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual weight at the end of each month can then be filled in as the weight control regime progresses . |
| 2 | The general idea with pro-formas is that they should be filled in as the procedure progresses in order to qualify as ‘ notes made at the time ’ . |
| 3 | He 'd noted that Howard had clammed up as the new arrival appeared . |
| 4 | Huddersfield were caught out as the red-haired centre-half rushed forward to meet the cross from a comer , and headed Arsenal into the semi-final . |
| 5 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 6 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 7 | Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions . |
| 8 | Gradually parts of the Chelt 's course were culverted and later built over as the town grew . |
| 9 | Two men had made off as the police arrived . |
| 10 | This is particularly emphasised in progressive municipal boroughs , whose opposition is written off as the insanity of the ‘ loony left ’ , to the extent that the Labour Party itself seems nervous of suggesting anything socialist or progressive for fear of losing the middle ground . |
| 11 | The wings became a blur and Twoflower was jerked back as the dragon veered and sped off down a side corridor like a gnat-crazed swallow . |
| 12 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |
| 13 | Your abdomen will be automatically drawn in as the ribs move out and the chest expands . |
| 14 | It 's the sort of thing that gets handed down as the women are pounding the manioc root or whatever . |
| 15 | Then we watched the names being washed out as the sea came in and felt sad . |
| 16 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 17 | On the contrary they are being wiped out as the loggers introduce new diseases , alcohol and guns along with the roads they are driving through the rainforest . |
| 18 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 19 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 20 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 21 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 22 | On March 5 another outbreak of fire caused the search for some 150 missing men to be called off as the mine was sealed . |
| 23 | Days Mill , in its diminished form , has now been swallowed up as the town of Nailsworth has expanded around it . |
| 24 | Many of the Twyver 's mills were swallowed up as the City of Gloucester expanded . |
| 25 | He mentioned that great charges and costs had been incurred by the works far above any returns , Some course was to be made for the maintenance of the workmen if the mines were as worn out as the Germans pretended . |
| 26 | And the light given out as the star crossed the boundary itself took for ever to get to you . |
| 27 | This was shaken out as the hay was made , helping to maintain the rich variety of flowers and herbs . |
| 28 | The building was sealed off as the package was made safe . |
| 29 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 30 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |