Example sentences of "as [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were to be worthy members of the Arsenal family off the field as well as on . |
| 2 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 3 | Matt and me getting edgier with one another off camera as well as on . |
| 4 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 5 | ‘ This is as much foisted on to me as on to you . ’ |
| 6 | But there is ample evidence in the novel , in addition to the flawed mirror , to suggest that it is Irigaray 's version , not Lacan 's , that functions as Thru 's theoretical ‘ deep structure ’ . |
| 7 | Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types . |
| 8 | So do n't stretch your budget too far and the interest rate — and your payment — can go up , as well as down . |
| 9 | This creates a bed for your pet that is as soft as down yet always springs back into shape after use . |
| 10 | as down she went all tenderness and laughter . |
| 11 | It is as easy for the sportsman to shoot me up here as down there . |
| 12 | Im not quite as down on the performance as others seem to be . |
| 13 | Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down . |
| 14 | er November , mid November , we 've got an assault course er based at Bicester barracks , er army barracks in Bicester , and we 're inviting er various people over the age of sixteen , who live in and around the Bicester and Oxford areas er as well as down into Aylesbury , er if they 'd like to come and take part , and it 'd be sponsored for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association and the work that we do . |
| 15 | As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter . |
| 16 | We might also usefully recall that to cross is not only to traverse , but to mix ( as in to crossbreed ) and to contradict ( as in to cross someone ) ; also that cross-dressing potentially involves both inversion and displacement of gender binaries . |
| 17 | We might also usefully recall that to cross is not only to traverse , but to mix ( as in to crossbreed ) and to contradict ( as in to cross someone ) ; also that cross-dressing potentially involves both inversion and displacement of gender binaries . |
| 18 | Belief in , we are told , implies an act of will , a decision to trust — as in ‘ I believe in you ’ . |
| 19 | Belief that , on the other hand , is understood t be an acceptance of fact , and observation of what is the case — as in ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ . |
| 20 | We do at times use ‘ belief in ’ language to mean something similar to ‘ belief that ’ — as in ‘ I believe in ghosts ’ , which surely includes the idea , ‘ I believe that there is some evidence ghosts exist ’ . |
| 21 | Humans often make statements about their awareness of their own internal body state as in ‘ I am tired ; thirsty ; hungry ; nauseated ; drunk ; sleepy etc . ’ |
| 22 | General symptoms can be preceded by the words ‘ I am ’ , as in ‘ I am thirsty , hot , tired , lacking energy or burning all over ’ . |
| 23 | For successful anaphor resolution , it is important to co-ordinate the contributions of system components embodying different types of linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge , such as configurational constraints in ( ‘ He examined him ’ , the two pronouns can not co-refer ) , sortal restrictions ( in ‘ She drank it ’ , ‘ it ’ must refer to some liquid if ‘ drank ’ is interpreted literally ) , focusing ( as in ‘ He examined its legs ’ above ) , and reasoning ( as in the second sentence of ‘ John told the waiter he had no money . |
| 24 | IN THIS game ( known as science-writing , as in I science-write , you science-write , he/she science writes ) it pays to know about jargon . |
| 25 | Kevin Fagan 's Excess XS presents the ultimate dramatic ( as in on the stage , not tabloid-style blind sensationalism ) look at Ecstasy and the North-west dance scene . |
| 26 | One of the meanings of ‘ promise ’ is ‘ give cause for expecting ’ , as in ‘ He promised to be stout when grown up ’ ( Daniel Defoe ) . |
| 27 | Similarly , challenged to explain how he could mean the same by ‘ pain' in ‘ Someone else is in pain' as in ‘ I 'm in pain' , since he could n't conceivably experience someone else 's pain , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of pain-language to others . |
| 28 | Worse still is the use of the shortened form of reference ‘ re ’ as in ‘ Re your letter of … ’ . |
| 29 | To man ( Verb ) as in ‘ to man the ship ’ , ‘ to man the barricades ’ , or ‘ manning the office ’ |
| 30 | And it may also demand analysis of the constructions that a word may appear in , for instance , that a verb like want can be followed by the term for what is wanted , as in I want that block ; or by a clause , as in I want him to come here . |