Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Given our present level of ignorance there is a good case for muddling along as best we can until the theory catches up with the data .
2 Harvest the flower spikes for drying just as the flowers begin to unfold .
3 They can split on impact with the high twist yarns of ripstop nylon , and are really intended for sewing knitting fabrics where the ball forces the yarn apart , stretching and borrowing yarn from adjacent loops in the fabric without cutting through as with the normal pointed needle .
4 PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert .
5 Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them .
6 If the patient has a positive supporting reaction , the physiotherapist places his foot carefully towards the floor , grading the pressure it receives in order to reduce the automatic reaction of pushing down as soon as it makes contact .
7 Further considerations included the effect of centrifugal forces on carburettor feeds , cockpit instrumentation and the pilot , who could be in danger of blacking out as speed and ‘ g ’ loading increased .
8 Why do you allow her to continue with all this humbug of taking over as your hostess when you know she will never do so ? ’
9 ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club .
10 I think the art of moving around as I have done in my career into different products and functions and into various industries is the ability to sum up quickly your close colleagues .
11 This is as much to keep other things from crowding in as it is to ensure that we pay attention to all that matters .
12 Severini , who had signed the manifestos but was not exhibiting , had come to Milan to ask Marinetti for financial assistance , and he advised that the Italian painters should visit Paris before exhibiting there as they intended .
13 Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’
14 ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’
15 Content often left little to the imagination , with one candidate listing ‘ winning a prize for dressing up as Kylie Minogue at the Finchley carnival ’ among his or her achievements , while another left nothing to chance and scrawled ‘ YOU CA N'T LIVE WITHOUT ME ! ’ at the end of his CV .
16 He has operated an ‘ open door ’ policy since taking over as NBT 's artistic director and will continue to do so .
17 HERO pilot Dane Crosby coolly saved the crew of his rescue helicopter from drowning yesterday as he ditched in raging seas .
18 In his English writings Richard Rolle , too , sees Christ 's suffering as the pragmatic key to a form of living both as regards external circumstances and internal consciousness , which will free followers to engage with the ineffable reality of the love mediated at the Incarnation .
19 It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo .
20 For an agonising moment Shannon felt herself losing control , overwhelmed by an urge to fly at Marianne , to assuage her own brutal torment by lashing out as she had done long ago in the school playground , when the jeers and mockery became too much to bear .
21 It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure .
22 He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult .
23 They could use the possibility of buying outside as bargaining leverage to get better performance from their own provider " ( Enthoven 1985 : 40 ) .
24 By a supreme stroke of irony he got the job , with the possibility of taking over as kapellmeister on the death or retirement of the ageing and sickly incumbent , Leopold Hoffman .
25 Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages .
26 But , as already emphasised , the problem of meaning here as elsewhere does not reduce to the problem of criteria .
27 He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman .
28 It was to Ronnie Dunn that there fell the unenviable task of taking over as Palace 's number one goalkeeper for 1932–33 after Callender 's tragic suicide , but the young man was emotionally and physically equipped to do so .
29 Following this peak , the heat falls steadily to CO 0.5 monolayers before levelling off as before .
30 For the first time since taking over as Chief Constable last month Tony Butler held a meeting to talk about policing in Gloucestershire .
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