Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hall voltage should therefore decrease smoothly as the gate voltage ( V ) is increased , as this controls the density of electrons in the inversion layer . |
| 2 | This was the first time that everyone else on the station at that time became aware of the danger , and they could only watch helplessly as the child stood petrified with fright between the rails . |
| 3 | He could only watch helplessly as Paula was hurled headfirst into the canoe floating nearby . |
| 4 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 5 | When he touched a gentle knuckle to her cheek , she started ; her breath lodged somewhere in her throat and she could only stand helplessly as he untied the ribbon securing her hair . |
| 6 | A mild recession will correct but not eliminate the deficit , which is bound to remain high , and may even rise again as another pre-election consumer spree gathers pace . |
| 7 | Not all transsexuals undergo surgical treatment , though the number of such operations performed may well rise steadily as the problem of transsexualism gains more attention and becomes more visible , and as clinics are established specializing in treatment and research . |
| 8 | Those who wish to practise the profession of solicitor in England and Wales may presently do so as sole practitioners , as employees of other solicitors ( either individuals or firms ) or in partnership with other solicitors . |
| 9 | I felt them , if I was in the same position , I would probably drink heavily as well . |
| 10 | Of course , road accidents and pedestrian tumbles would also increase alarmingly as wind-blown polymer dust spread round the locality . |
| 11 | A direct-link balanced tree index would also look just as in Fig. 7.3(a) before additions . |
| 12 | They would often be put in the stocks until they sobered up , but they would invariably lapse again as soon as they were freed . |
| 13 | It would doubtless hoot derisively as it drew level ; perhaps it was carrying poisons , enema pumps and cream tarts , or supplies for chemists and mathematicians . |
| 14 | If so , the Directive will normally operate so as to transfer the employees employed by the former controller in the discharge of the function to the new controller and on the same terms and conditions of employment . |
| 15 | Small plants that can get their roots down will soon shoot ahead as has been proven in the Forestry Commission trial plots at Stoneleigh . |
| 16 | Although ApC may be a potential cleavage site on account of its structure , the asymmetric drug molecule will always bind so as to cleave the opposing ( GT ) strand by virtue of its ability to form a hydrogen bond with guanine . |
| 17 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 18 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 19 | The analysis of the dialectics of the centre and the margin can thus operate geographically as well as conceptually , articulating the power relationships between the metropolitan and the colonial cultures at their geographical peripheries . |
| 20 | If you can also grunt loudly as you release the shot , this gives the impression to watching parents that you are putting huge amounts of effort into the event . |
| 21 | The external demands on government are such that it can often act only as arbiter between competing demands and respond , under guidance from civil servants , to international events and trends over which it has no direct influence . |
| 22 | As the driving weight causes the drum to rotate , the mercury is raised until it counter-balances the weight , which can then fall slowly as the mercury flows through the dividing walls . |
| 23 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |