Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research evidence shows that , just as student attention fades significantly during the course of a lecture , so the retention and recall of lecture material fades equally rapidly . |
| 2 | Thus , just as place deixis encodes spatial locations on coordinates anchored to the place of utterance , so time deixis encodes times on co-ordinates anchored to the time of utterance . |
| 3 | It seems that there is the possibility of using a sign code , but it does not express itself among deaf people in this sort of task as clearly as speech coding does in hearing people . |
| 4 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 5 | She won her subsequent litigation but as far as penis envy goes , it was a bitter experience . |
| 6 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 7 | So far as desktop publishing goes the dominant range here is supplied by Bitstream , indeed most packages seem to provide the basic Dutch ( Times ) and Swiss ( Helvetica ) faces free of charge . |
| 8 | The sale was conducted by Messrs Cobb , many items being bought in by Mr T. Lingham including sheep , cattle , horses etc. as well as hop growing implements The growing of hops continued into the present century in Upper Hailing , and a photograph album loaned to me by Mr P. Lingham shows some fine photos taken in the hop fields of Upper Hailing as well as the farm , these date from the late 19th and early 20th century . |
| 9 | They provide summaries and clear explanations of the grammar points covered , as well as write-in grammar exercises for further practice , homework , or revision . |
| 10 | It was argued that , following the 1980- 1981 ‘ shake out ’ of inefficient producers , the composition of UK exports moved away from ‘ necessity ’ goods ( the demand for which tends to grow slowly as world income grows ) , towards ‘ luxuries ’ , whose demand grows relatively fast . |
| 11 | Moreover , rather as substance dualism tends to do , it seems to undermine the causal role of consciousness in , for example , bringing about or influencing actions . |