Example sentences of "as we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations like ACET need this support to enable people like myself to retain maximum control and continue to live at home as independently as we can . |
| 2 | A firm basis for the study of Oriental art came more slowly , and as we shall see , some of the differences of approach between East and West still require wider recognition . |
| 3 | A well-known picture book of Italian art alone contains more than 4,000 reproductions , yet histories of art , as we have seen , contain fewer , sometimes much fewer than 1,000 plates . |
| 4 | In proportion , then , as we advance in the chronological sequence of his works , we find his material become less and less pastose , his touches more and more liquid and transparent , more like watercolour . |
| 5 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 6 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | A leading exponent of these mysteries is the novelist and journalist V. S. Naipaul , whose foreign countries are , as we have already seen , areas of darkness , where coups and crises are glimpsed but may remain enigmatic . |
| 8 | It matters less and less as we move into an enjoyable account derived from a vocational puller-down of statues of the Shah and his father . |
| 9 | By Roth , as by his predecessors in the dualistic art , this definition has been correlated with breakdown , madness , though , as we have seen , Zuckerman seeks to exert a counterclaim in his letter to Maria . |
| 10 | Let us praise , more than we do , and as we can here , the literal writer . |
| 11 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 12 | As we examine the dominant beliefs of the two alliances , it must be stressed that we are not looking at beliefs possessed by each and every person who identifies to a greater or lesser extent with either set of traditions . |
| 13 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 14 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 15 | Tried to explain the real implications of quantum physics as we crossed Kensington Road . |
| 16 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 17 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 18 | This need not necessarily be antipathetic to ‘ pub values ’ as we recognise them . |
| 19 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 20 | ‘ As sure as we can be , ’ said Milsom . |
| 21 | ‘ How have you found us ? ’ the headmaster asked me — masochistically — one warm summer 's afternoon as we sat watching a cricket match . |
| 22 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 23 | The walk to Paddington was a comparatively short one and , slow as we were , we accomplished it in fairly quick time . |
| 24 | ‘ What sort of accommodation have you got in Harwich ? ’ she asked , as we went off to sit down in the lounge . |
| 25 | Jenny asked me as we got up to leave . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll take you as we find you . ’ |
| 27 | As we live only a short distance from the Thames , we have to keep a net over the pond , as two years ago we lost 18 fish to a heron . |
| 28 | As we gardeners know , a very high percentage of gardens are now tended this way . |
| 29 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 30 | If possible increase the size of any vaguely level area already there , as we did with the lawn . |