Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logan was keen to court that generation both as readers and as potential writers . |
| 2 | We 've got to continue that restraint even as things start to get better , and that means restraints from the top to the bottom , from board room to shop floor . |
| 3 | By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications . |
| 4 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 5 | However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) . |
| 6 | Since to have sexual intercourse without her consent is to do her great harm , it is not unjust for the law to require that he inquire carefully into consent and , it may be added , process that information carefully as well . |
| 7 | Compaq , it seems , had no stomach for a MIPS-only menu , and SCO found that prospect just as unappealing . |
| 8 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 9 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |
| 10 | The case caused much discussion especially as it could scarcely be said that his activity was directly connected with his duties as a judge . |
| 11 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 12 | They split the 50 minutes of observing time into 5-second units and classified each period either as ‘ infant acts ’ , ‘ mother acts ’ , ‘ both act ’ , or ‘ both quiescent ’ . |
| 13 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 14 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 15 | The social chapter would not provide any protection here as pay policy is excluded , apart from the equal pay issue ; but in terms of social security and employment conditions , it would be an important advance . |
| 16 | Suppose you know that tune well as well . |
| 17 | Suppose you know that song well as well ? |
| 18 | There were lights at regular intervals in the ceiling , with patches of shadow in between , and stripes of light and dark followed each other overhead as they trundled her along . |
| 19 | But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns . |
| 20 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
| 21 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 22 | I needed that lesson just as you needed yours . |
| 23 | Perhaps she needed this interlude only as the lover needs a rest from loving . |
| 24 | We feel sure we understand this distinction just as we feel sure we understand the distinction between truth and falsehood , or the distinction between good and evil . |
| 25 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 26 | You mean they do n't take this test seriously as I do , Ashington Floaters |
| 27 | It is possible to nuance this view slightly as regards the Edinburgh union leadership . |
| 28 | You hear beep beep all night long as they try to pass each other . |
| 29 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 30 | Gerd regards any intrusion here as evidence that the adventurers are hostile , and he wo n't co-operate any further if he knows they have forced their way in here . |