Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING and shouting will be the key factors for Portsmouth at Villa Park tonight as they attempt to finish with a bang in a season which , after promising so much , could end in double disappointment . |
| 2 | Things like this are always hurtful but I hope that people will have faith just as they have in the resurrection of Jesus . |
| 3 | Fed up with living in ‘ little boxes all the same ’ , they want to stamp their own personality on an older building and have the chance to lovingly shape a new home exactly as they want . |
| 4 | The little blobs of phosphorus flare briefly as they fly off dangerously in various directions . |
| 5 | ’ Some of the older staff have reacted by attempting to do the job much as they have always done it , which means , in effect , engaging in various minor acts of deviance from new bureaucratic demands in order to minimize the trouble caused . |
| 6 | Although change may evolve slowly , problem-posing can be a nurturing process with people exploring visions and building community together as they work on problems . |
| 7 | The best feature of Dashboard is the Customisation , where every user can modify the ‘ look and feel ’ of their day-to-day Windows desktop exactly as they want it . |
| 8 | You hear beep beep all night long as they try to pass each other . |
| 9 | Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild . |
| 10 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 11 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 12 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 13 | Bet she made you struggle last week , during the week so as they wan na ask for somebody . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 15 | Here when they 're talking about women , I think James was right , women do have a vital role at the beginning in all cultures , what I 'm trying to say is that they have a vital role increasingly as they become more and more educated too . |
| 16 | The reformer , like a US president with a recalcitrant supreme court , can secure a majority in his favour only as they retire , die or move on to better things . |
| 17 | It is this last factor — the high cost of extending the scope of mainframe-based applications — that has discouraged hard-pressed customers in the US from adding mainframe power at a rapid pace even as they have rapidly added desktop machines and minicomputers . |
| 18 | Hydrangea florets can be picked and pressed in the autumn when they are a lovely green shade with reddish tinges , although you may have to choose your bush carefully as they do not all have the same density of colour . |
| 19 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 20 | It must be stressed that after a certain time has elapsed , individuals will interact with the researcher just as they will with anyone else , notwithstanding the possible inhibiting effect of recording equipment . |
| 21 | It means rather that people act as though they know the principle just as they act as though they know the rules of grammar — though very few people can even begin to formulate them , and nobody can formulate them completely . |
| 22 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 23 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 24 | Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee . |