Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnes 's decision therefore came as somewhat of a slap in the face to these well rehearsed points . |
| 2 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 3 | But behind these was known to be God 's Enemy variously named as ‘ Satan , the devil , ( a false accuser , slanderer , calumniator , ) the evil one , the ruler of this world , the prince of the power of the air , Belial , Beelzebub , the god of this world , the destroyer , a murderer from the beginning and the enemy . ’ |
| 4 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 5 | Ma flashes Pa an amazed look ; Pa 's frown merely deepens as the Monster hurls itself up , over the tray of the high chair to belly flop on the table in a wreckage of china and dream topping . |
| 6 | The hectic flush on Isabel 's face gradually faded as she watched fitzAlan leave . |
| 7 | Jumping for joy : India 's Kiran More celebrates as England 's Richard Blakey is bowled first ball by Anil Kumble in the third Test in Bombay yesterday . |
| 8 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 9 | Martin had happily seen U21 rugby fully established as third in line in the English rugby hierarchy , and he thoroughly deserved the presentation made to him during the Trent College week by the panel to mark the esteem in which he is universally held . |