Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 2 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 3 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 4 | I watch Fairfax carefully as he talks to the laibon . |
| 5 | On the other , simultaneously , He moves across the surface of the sea : upon the face , riding the waves even as He creates them , surfing the world into existence . |
| 6 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 7 | Good news is expected from Marks & Spencer today as it tries to compete with Sainsbury as the UK 's most profitable retailer . |
| 8 | He grins and there 's mischief in those eyes again as he describes one of his greatest pleasures : ‘ I often come back to Bristol to do Poetry Please . |
| 9 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 10 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 11 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 12 | Fran said : ‘ Fingers crossed , she can soon sit in class with all the other youngsters just as she has always wanted . |
| 13 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 14 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 15 | Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks . |
| 16 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 17 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 18 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 19 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 20 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 21 | We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise . |
| 22 | Michael Stott , above , catches the Duchess unawares as he plants a kiss on her cheek and , inset , the Duchess talks to Andrew Taylor |
| 23 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 24 | We value this regular service highly as it has been a source of up-to-date information which is readily available on a weekly basis . |
| 25 | Another rider , David Wonnacott , missed the winning ride on Lizzy Longstocking at Wincanton yesterday as he has trapped nerves in his right shoulder following a fall at Taunton . |
| 26 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 27 | Sharon 's face lights up as she hears his admission of love . |
| 28 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 29 | I think the statement should really just be judged on its merits today as it stands . |
| 30 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |