Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 2 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 3 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 4 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 5 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 6 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 7 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 8 | Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks . |
| 9 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 10 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 11 | We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise . |
| 12 | Michael Stott , above , catches the Duchess unawares as he plants a kiss on her cheek and , inset , the Duchess talks to Andrew Taylor |
| 13 | We value this regular service highly as it has been a source of up-to-date information which is readily available on a weekly basis . |
| 14 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 15 | The reason is not just that international affairs are hard to reduce to intellectual order , perhaps because they are changing character even as one tries . |
| 16 | But she has no intention of changing course now as she believes that , run as separate entities , the shops remain manageable and provide a strong incentive to succeed for the franchisees . |
| 17 | One palm reader may deduce her findings from a comparison between lines and hand form , while another may simply use the palm rather as she uses , at other times , a crystal ball . |
| 18 | If he does not become Chancellor , he will remain in the news anyway as he attempts to push through the Government 's toughest privatisation yet , British Rail . |
| 19 | HIS BEST BIB AND CHUCKER GAZZA tosses his training bib to the ground yesterday as he confronts Lazio team boss Dino Zoff |
| 20 | The canal passes under the eastern spur of the M5 and then leaves the noise and traffic behind as it dives into a deep wooded cutting from where there is little evidence that the canal is passing between the housing estates of Grove Vale as the atmosphere is so pleasantly rural . |
| 21 | The conditioner has a single rotor with pivoting U-shaped tines which toss the grass upwards as it leaves the cutting blades . |
| 22 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 23 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 24 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 25 | Such a conflict of conversational goals is the domain of pragmatics and will be dealt with later , but its seriousness is strongly implied by Anderson 's very flawed linguistic performance even as he resorts to a higher lexical register to excuse his actions . |
| 26 | I find this poem not as effective as ‘ Futility ’ in getting its message across as there does not seem to be much emotion in it and it is very difficult to understand and that takes away much of the effect . |
| 27 | MODEL Paula Hamilton puts a long leg forward as she strides across the catwalk in stunning fashion . |
| 28 | So I posted the letter rather as one throws a message in a bottle into the sea ; not quite as a joke , perhaps , but almost . |
| 29 | The Lepismatidae have acquired an additional anterior articulation which , with other changes , enables the mandible to move by adduction and abduction in the transverse plane rather as it does in most mandibulate Pterygotes . |
| 30 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |