Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the oleoresins of the dipterocarps have an effect on the bacteria of the fore-stomach of colobines and it is now necessary to study the interaction of these bacteria with fibre and the wide range of tannins , some of which shield protein from degradation in the fore-stomach , or denature them so as to enhance proteolysis . |
| 2 | Another thing is , in prison you mix with everyone , and I think that made me worse as well . |
| 3 | Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that since the decision by the Secretary of State on the channel tunnel route to London , British Rail has appointed consultants to advise on the possibility of building the Eurostation above ground , rather than building it underground as proposed in the Bill ? |
| 4 | According to this definition , time has no substantive existence but is a mental concept or means of measurement — a point of view that strikes us today as being remarkably modern . |
| 5 | She was about his age , and in the chronic torpid state that overcame him daily as he faced work , he could not make his embarrassment at her gesture connect with his limbs . |
| 6 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |
| 7 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 8 | It simply means loving and accepting yourself unconditionally as you are . |
| 9 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 10 | On Wednesday he came and found her just as she was finishing off applying a back-slab to a fractured wrist . |
| 11 | She is a writer and loves it just as it is . |
| 12 | Bulls usually shake their heads erratically , lowering them vertically and twisting them sideways as they jerk them up to inflict the maximum injury . |
| 13 | Marwick , like McGregor , looks at legislative change in the period , and describes it generally as both liberal and ‘ civilising ’ . |
| 14 | He handed her his breast pocket handkerchief and studied her carefully as she dabbed her eyes . |
| 15 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 16 | I love and accept myself just as I am . |
| 17 | He will fix his eyes on some spot that he thinks he knows and watch it intently as the day fades , hoping to be able to plot any light that may appear later on . |
| 18 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 19 | Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House . |
| 20 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 21 | She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could . |
| 22 | You may hear the word ‘ football ’ pronounced as , but your brain recognises the word as made up of ‘ foot ’ and ‘ ball ’ and interprets it phonologically as . |
| 23 | Nicolo took her hand and swung it gently as they walked . |
| 24 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 25 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 26 | In 1576 , she insisted that her new Archbishop of Canterbury , Edmund Grindal , should suppress prophesyings , and when he disobeyed and challenged her right as supreme governor to decide on the matter , she suspended him from office . |
| 27 | ‘ A beautiful baby girl , ’ she said and swaddled it tightly as is the custom . |
| 28 | ‘ You and your little nerves , ’ he said and he put his fingers in the back of the collar of my dress and pulled it slightly as though I was a recalcitrant dog . |
| 29 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 30 | She can establish grounds of contact , and continue them either as Princess or later as Queen . |