Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 2 | Purposely pulled apart as when , torn to scraps |
| 3 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 4 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 5 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |