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 | I watch Fairfax carefully as he talks to the laibon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Good news is expected from Marks & Spencer today as it tries to compete with Sainsbury as the UK 's most profitable retailer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 11 | Fran said : ‘ Fingers crossed , she can soon sit in class with all the other youngsters just as she has always wanted . |
| 12 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Michael Stott , above , catches the Duchess unawares as he plants a kiss on her cheek and , inset , the Duchess talks to Andrew Taylor |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | I think the statement should really just be judged on its merits today as it stands . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All eyes will be on Vina Buller today as she goes into the final showjumping phase in the lead of the National Championship sponsored by Heineken at Punchestown in Co Kildare . |
| 28 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 29 | But she has no intention of changing course now as she believes that , run as separate entities , the shops remain manageable and provide a strong incentive to succeed for the franchisees . |
| 30 | One palm reader may deduce her findings from a comparison between lines and hand form , while another may simply use the palm rather as she uses , at other times , a crystal ball . |