Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , Gillian Shephard 's unspirited response yesterday as the crude jobless count rose once more beyond three million ( the seasonally-adjusted total will follow it next month ) . |
| 2 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 3 | With strength born of desperation , Craig heaved himself up and pushed his way through the broken window just as the door burst open below him . |
| 4 | But there have been errors too , with Pilkington investing in foreign glass capacity during the 1980s , at the peak of a cycle which soon slumped , leaving the St Helens based group with over capacity just as the down turn arrived . |
| 5 | He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind . |
| 6 | Marjorie , a part-time student on the scheme , warms to this idea especially as the accent is as much on the aesthetic as the functional possibilities . |
| 7 | Perhaps she needed this interlude only as the lover needs a rest from loving . |
| 8 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 9 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 10 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 11 | Your two year olds do n't do as much exercise sometimes as the old horses do . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The 200 is a five-door hatchback and is one of the new breed of Escort-class cars to offer almost as much room inside as a Sierra . |
| 14 | Joshua distractedly waved the second egg away as the Rabbi answered his daughter-in-law 's question . |
| 15 | Hans Ebert stood by the open hatchway of the transporter , his left hand gripping the overhead strap tightly as the craft rose steeply from the mountainside . |
| 16 | Naturally the comparisons were closest with other crustaceans , and Huxley brought in shrimps , lobsters and crabs in the context of his course ; the crayfish was a typical crustacean rather as the man on the Clapham omnibus was supposed to be a typical Englishman . |
| 17 | Anglo 's problems have been exacerbated by the mild weather over the past few years which hit demand for solid fuel just as the recession clobbered other parts of the business . |
| 18 | The Adjutant even permitted himself a rueful grin just as the office door itself opened and the CO strode in . |
| 19 | She shrank into the furthest corner just as the door was pushed open , thankful that Jack had not yet seen fit to light the sconces against the shadows of late afternoon . |
| 20 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 21 | Yet it was hard to make a good living here as the Peruvians did not seem to like their own music . |
| 22 | It typified the northern Russian timber interpretation of Byzantine architecture just as the cathedral at Kiev illustrated that of southern Russia in masonry . |
| 23 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 24 | SHARES soared by more than £3 billion to another all-time high yesterday as the Bank of England indicated that spending was rising in the High Streets . |
| 25 | The big houses are selling up ; they are in as much dire distress financially as the working classes . |
| 26 | The honeypot of Inveraray lures the car-based tourist past as the main road is on the opposite side of the canal . |
| 27 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 28 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 29 | Thinking cinematically — there is , he believes , a whole philosophic category of filmic vision — he sees the moment played in close-up : the camera moving slowly up her beautiful legs , brown and restive , reaching this little mysterious delta just as the short , dense skirt descends . |
| 30 | Her Great-Uncle Isaac , who lived at Low Birk Hatt , used to keep geese and one night just as the light had faded my dad shot what he thought was a duck flying off Hury Reservoir . |