Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] as the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 2 | So just how fast is the HPC and did it , as Caterham suggested it might , grow faster as the miles accrue ? |
| 3 | Our vet says we will know if the melanomas spread internally as the mane will lose condition very quickly and in the meantime keep on using her as if nothing is wrong . |
| 4 | Once again large firms gain the added flexibility of adjusting actual hours worked to a shorter working week , but where overtime is used their workers gain more as the extra overtime payment is based on a higher basic rate . |
| 5 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 6 | The Co-ordinator and tutors meet collectively as the MAC twice termly and as a Stage I examinations committee termly . |
| 7 | The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation , divorce or death . |
| 8 | Privatisation and deregulation become harder as the candidates become trickier and less obvious , but they still need doing — and explaining . |
| 9 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
| 10 | You can synchronise your digital watch with the countdown to ensure you start exactly as the gun goes . |
| 11 | Clearly , spectroscopic methods based on femtosecond pulses are an appropriate way to observe the unstable dissociating ( or transition ) states that exist fleetingly as the molecules fall apart . |
| 12 | The revs rise wildly as the rear end cocks at least 20 degrees to the right , tyre etching a black mark right out to the kerb . |
| 13 | The sexual organs of birds enlarge dramatically as the days lengthen and then shrivel up again after breeding . |
| 14 | Out of this , forms emerge , solidify , and then disintegrate again as the spectator turns his attention back from the individual forms to the painting as a whole . |