Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snow lay on the park outside as Miranda showed her new house in Cumberland Terrace to fashion editor Annie Trehearne . |
| 2 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 3 | To the extent that there are shareholders with shares issued under the share option scheme at completion , these vendors will enter into the contract purely as vendors of the shares and all warranties and indemnities will be assumed by the principal shareholders of ABC . |
| 4 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 5 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |
| 6 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 7 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 8 | Behind John Malalas ' tale there is probably a Seleucid version presenting the Jews simply as rebels against the authority of Antiochus IV , but it is not a version we can use in any responsible way for the reconstruction of the events ( E. Bickerman , Byzantion 21 ( 1951 ) , 63–83 ) . |
| 9 | But on the first morning of the second week Iskandara came into the drawing-room , where Alexandra chose to write her letters instead of using the boudoir upstairs as Janet wished her to do , and silently put Aunt Emily 's journal down in front of her daughter . |
| 10 | Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint . |
| 11 | The last of the cuirassiers were driven from the village just as darkness fell , leaving a thousand corpses and a heap of rubble to the French as the fruits of victory . |
| 12 | She arrived back at the village just as night was turning into day . |
| 13 | He asked the question just as Karen had asked it of him when he 'd opened the door . |
| 14 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
| 15 | Dodgy lending to developing countries loomed over banks in the mid-1980s much as property loans do now . |
| 16 | He left the room just as Jack appeared , his hair rumpled , his shirt half-tucked into his trousers , tie hanging round his neck . |
| 17 | Section 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 ( the interpretation section ) defines a trade mark as : a mark … used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating , or so as to indicate , a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right either as proprietor or registered user to use the mark , whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person . |
| 18 | David Linighan , known at the club as Linny and in the town simply as Skipper , talks above the commotion as amiable as he is unaffected . |
| 19 | PACE aces Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram produced the goods again as Pakistan claimed a thrilling three-run victory over England at Lord 's . |
| 20 | And he pushed him into the shed just as light filled the yard again . |
| 21 | The notion of conversational implicature is one of the single most important ideas in pragmatics ( we shall often refer to the notion simply as implicature as a shorthand , although distinctions between this and other kinds of implicature will be introduced below ) . |
| 22 | Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’ |
| 23 | Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’ |
| 24 | DESPITE the impressive 38–4 scoreline against London Crusaders , there was a distinct lack of style to match the occasion yesterday as Sheffield secured their return to the First Division in a game spoilt by strong wind . |
| 25 | Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden . |
| 26 | So Howard flies out from the Bahamas just as Bill Saltman flies in . |
| 27 | When she flew into tempers , Nicholas would hand her letters , in one in which he quoted St Paul as saying ‘ Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord , for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is head of the Church . ' ’ |
| 28 | The few biblical texts with the mention of Yavan which can be dated with prod ability before 336 B.C. know the Greeks only as traders — or more generically as one of the nations of the world . |
| 29 | Gifted professional golfers have a duty to the game just as tournament administrators have a duty to defend the integrity of sport . |
| 30 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |