Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given our present level of ignorance there is a good case for muddling along as best we can until the theory catches up with the data . |
| 2 | They can split on impact with the high twist yarns of ripstop nylon , and are really intended for sewing knitting fabrics where the ball forces the yarn apart , stretching and borrowing yarn from adjacent loops in the fabric without cutting through as with the normal pointed needle . |
| 3 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 4 | If the patient has a positive supporting reaction , the physiotherapist places his foot carefully towards the floor , grading the pressure it receives in order to reduce the automatic reaction of pushing down as soon as it makes contact . |
| 5 | Further considerations included the effect of centrifugal forces on carburettor feeds , cockpit instrumentation and the pilot , who could be in danger of blacking out as speed and ‘ g ’ loading increased . |
| 6 | Why do you allow her to continue with all this humbug of taking over as your hostess when you know she will never do so ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club . |
| 8 | I think the art of moving around as I have done in my career into different products and functions and into various industries is the ability to sum up quickly your close colleagues . |
| 9 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 11 | Content often left little to the imagination , with one candidate listing ‘ winning a prize for dressing up as Kylie Minogue at the Finchley carnival ’ among his or her achievements , while another left nothing to chance and scrawled ‘ YOU CA N'T LIVE WITHOUT ME ! ’ at the end of his CV . |
| 12 | He has operated an ‘ open door ’ policy since taking over as NBT 's artistic director and will continue to do so . |
| 13 | HERO pilot Dane Crosby coolly saved the crew of his rescue helicopter from drowning yesterday as he ditched in raging seas . |
| 14 | In his English writings Richard Rolle , too , sees Christ 's suffering as the pragmatic key to a form of living both as regards external circumstances and internal consciousness , which will free followers to engage with the ineffable reality of the love mediated at the Incarnation . |
| 15 | For an agonising moment Shannon felt herself losing control , overwhelmed by an urge to fly at Marianne , to assuage her own brutal torment by lashing out as she had done long ago in the school playground , when the jeers and mockery became too much to bear . |
| 16 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 17 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 18 | They could use the possibility of buying outside as bargaining leverage to get better performance from their own provider " ( Enthoven 1985 : 40 ) . |
| 19 | By a supreme stroke of irony he got the job , with the possibility of taking over as kapellmeister on the death or retirement of the ageing and sickly incumbent , Leopold Hoffman . |
| 20 | Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages . |
| 21 | But , as already emphasised , the problem of meaning here as elsewhere does not reduce to the problem of criteria . |
| 22 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 23 | It was to Ronnie Dunn that there fell the unenviable task of taking over as Palace 's number one goalkeeper for 1932–33 after Callender 's tragic suicide , but the young man was emotionally and physically equipped to do so . |
| 24 | For the first time since taking over as Chief Constable last month Tony Butler held a meeting to talk about policing in Gloucestershire . |