Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line . |
| 2 | Migraine , too , is followed by nausea and vomit rather as sin is followed by remorse . |
| 3 | Defined as those which grow naturally as trees , top fruits will reward you well , given the right care and attention |
| 4 | In the match of the tournament , Drake took the first set 6–3 only to see his advantage melt away as Alger powered his way back into the reckoning with a blistering 6–1 win in the second . |
| 5 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 6 | Ideas of how society should treat its criminals change just as ideas of justice change . |
| 7 | But since in all of these examples the relevant traits act only as dispositions , the actual outcome in any given individual will depend on the interaction between vulnerability and other factors that trigger illness , leading to symptoms . |
| 8 | They act partly as stabilisers , like gyroscopes , and partly as sense organs presumably telling the fly of the attitude of its body in the air and the direction in which it is moving . |
| 9 | Allelic losses , insertions , and point mutations have been detected on many other chromosomes but it has still to be established whether such changes function simply as markers for colorectal cancer , or as potential prognostic indicators . |
| 10 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 11 | Duping everyone who comes to their absent master 's door , Jonathan Hyde and David Bradley ( as Face and Subtle ) act wonderfully as partners in crime abetted by Joanne Pearce as Doll Common , their tarty sidekick . |
| 12 | Most commenced with offices in the main ports of colonies , e.g. Bombay and Cape Town , and then spread inland as settlement took place or a military presence was established . |
| 13 | When you turn Right , consider Right as Plus |
| 14 | There is no doubt whatever where our obligations lie both as Christians and as socialists . |
| 15 | What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly . |
| 16 | Copepods Parabroteas sarsi and Pseudoboeckella poppei overwinter only as eggs in water bodies that freeze completely or become anoxic ; in large lakes they are active year-round , breeding in late winter to produce nauplii that feed on the early plankton bloom . |
| 17 | The illustrations are not meant to be accurate — for use as maps — but they succeed brilliantly as indicators of the terrain likely to be found on these walks . |
| 18 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 19 | Sometime between 1806 and 1813 the twisting action we know today as remuage evolved , but it was the angled cut of the holes as much as the twisting motion which provided the key to the solution sought by the widow . |
| 20 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 21 | Mark finally led us to the summit of Mont Blonc du Tacul just as darkness fell . |
| 22 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 23 | They operate negatively as constraints , but positively as enabling conditions . |
| 24 | From such heads of water currents will diverge along the coast and turn seawards as rip currents when they meet opposite currents emanating from the next divergence along the coast . |
| 25 | The danger of contamination from radioactive wastes persisting into ages which exist only as figures beyond the range of human imaginations belongs to an order different from that of oil spills and coal slurries . |
| 26 | Men and women who live together as couples can be held responsible for each others charges if either party does not pay . |
| 27 | When people write tutorials they usually do so as people who possess great knowledge about the subject they are discussing . |
| 28 | And amazingly all the boys nod approvingly as David adds : ‘ Girls are more mature about sex . |
| 29 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 30 | But I think possibly as Philip said his drugs are affecting his eyesight , but then they 'll need , he 'll have to have them tested and , and then , because he was on yesterday about them again |