Example sentences of "[adv] as we [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only as we begin to respond personally to the text 's content and open ourselves to its message ( irrespective of whether the consequence of this is an acceptance , modification , or rejection of it ) do we go beyond a mere decoding or perception of the words and begin to perceive meanings . |
| 2 | Just as we attempt to exert control over our children , physically and mentally from birth through to adolescence , so we suppress and as William Blake would have affirmed ) repress their spontaneity and imagination . |
| 3 | Just as we like to define a grid across the page so should we define a grid down the page . |
| 4 | This is what the Englishness of England is made of , and it is this sense of place and the particular which we are currently in danger of losing , just as we come to understand it more clearly . |
| 5 | We want to be able to challenge the whole idea of housework being women 's work , just as we want to challenge whether engineering or surgery or being a crane driver or a football referee , whether any of those are men 's jobs . |
| 6 | We run into immense difficulties as soon as we attempt to project our minds any distance at all above or beyond the area of our concrete experience , for then our reasoning and arguing can not be properly controlled . |
| 7 | ‘ As soon as we start to canter downhill riders start to freak out . ’ |
| 8 | In other words , so far as I am concerned , unless and until we are prepared to deal with this demonstrated cause of inflation and want to do so , we are wasting our time ; and as soon as we want to do so , there is no reason to suppose that there will be any problem or therefore any reason for an incomes policy as defined . |
| 9 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as soon as we begin to probe beneath the surface of the contemporary debate , political concerns sometimes seem to outweigh educational ones . |
| 11 | And as soon as we begin to enquire into the meaning of the term , we discover that it has been and still is understood in a variety of different ways , which may have a common core or root but are not identical . |
| 12 | But as soon as we have to commit this question to paper we discover ( or we certainly should discover ) that this is a difficult question to ask with absolute clarity . |
| 13 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 14 | She said , ‘ Fred and I will have to leave now as we have to catch the early train in the morning , Mary . |
| 15 | Thank you , Chair , it 's basically been allocated in terms of floor area , and what we 've said to Age Concern , is in so far as we continue to provide them with premises , then we will , if we adjust those charges , we will adjust their grant accordingly . |
| 16 | Even as we start to write , we find ourselves making contact with feelings for rhythm and style . |