Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ‘ Bondy ’ the roof literally caved in as Rowland launched a detailed investigation into his financial affairs that triggered his downfall and subsequent imprisonment . |
| 2 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 3 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 4 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 5 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 6 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 7 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 8 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 9 | In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker . |
| 10 | Crawford immediately brought in as Cuka 's replacement his Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em screen wife Michele Dotrice . |
| 11 | In fact the abolition of quotas seems to have cost Brazil about $1 billion in lost revenues — though this is difficult to judge , because Brazilian production also dropped precipitously as poor weather , soil conditions and falling world prices cut output in marginal areas . |
| 12 | At least 43 per cent of those who served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 were either Dissenters or from Dissenting backgrounds , whilst persons from the Dissenting interest also figured prominently as holders of Bank stock and as directors of the New East India Company . |
| 13 | He believes that during the inter-war years the three sections of the upper class virtually fused together as they all became increasingly involved in the growing industrial enterprises . |
| 14 | The congregation raggedly joined in as he invoked every dark force in the universe . |