Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 2 | This was the first time that everyone else on the station at that time became aware of the danger , and they could only watch helplessly as the child stood petrified with fright between the rails . |
| 3 | The stones threw long , flaring shadows that suggested the shape of some ancient harp , only lengthening imperceptibly as the sun 's angle grew more oblique . |
| 4 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |
| 5 | THE Labour leadership was overwhelmingly defeated yesterday as the conference demanded big pension increases . |
| 6 | If in fact a charge is already registered then as the land certificate is already notionally deposited at the registry no difficulty would appear to occur and registration can take place . |
| 7 | ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do . |
| 8 | Now watch this , as we go through the tack the sail is driving for most of the time just flapping briefly as the sail turns through the wind . |
| 9 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 10 | Development is not viewed simply as the product of the child-rearing regime adopted by parents ; it is an interactive process , where the child influences the mother 's behaviour as much as the mother the child . |
| 11 | The thickness of the established cable , after the first hour or two , does not change noticeably as the cable shortens during healing . |
| 12 | Alison Watson , executive director of Alice Hoffman Homes , said there had been ‘ a complete breakdown of trust and confidence ’ between herself and Knight , but would not elaborate further as the appeal progressed . |
| 13 | This did not last long as the scale did not allow sufficient detail to be recorded and only some parts of Aberdeenshire were mapped in this manner . |
| 14 | If species were indeed fixed , then their state of adaptation to the environment would gradually break down as the conditions were changed by geological forces . |
| 15 | Bosses are always equipped exactly as the rest of the unit , except that they are permitted one magic item in addition . |
| 16 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 17 | Gradually parts of the Chelt 's course were culverted and later built over as the town grew . |
| 18 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 19 | But personal growth is also shown here as the character of Pip begins to change even before he was given the money and it continues to change after all the money is gone . |
| 20 | Your abdomen will be automatically drawn in as the ribs move out and the chest expands . |
| 21 | For example , the most recent announcement is of a 50% cut in shop-front advertising — something the industry probably wanted anyway as the amount of clutter on shops was becoming counterproductive . |
| 22 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 23 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 24 | Until recently , emphasis was most commonly placed on the object as gift in the tradition of Mauss , but some consideration is now also being given to what is too often taken merely as the gift 's antithesis , that is the commodity . |
| 25 | But the events described in them — the loss of some ornament , or the visit of some old family friend — quite often turned out to happen just as the little boy had predicted . |
| 26 | Even this latter source of funds is now drying up as the property market slides into an ever deeper slump . |
| 27 | It wo n't look quite as the florist intended , but you will have a lasting reminder of the lovely gift once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 28 | The girl playing marbles did n't even look up as the travellers left . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |