Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of uptake is encouraging given that SVQs are relatively new , and enrolments are expected to increase steadily as more and more centres offer the growing number of awards available . |
| 2 | Everyone who is anyone in Fort Worth throws a party for the competition , either for the jury or for the competitors — who are permitted to mix only as they are eliminated . |
| 3 | We 're going to retire here as soon as we 've sold our house . ’ |
| 4 | And they 're trying to take away as many er possible erm , mainly one barrier er railway gates as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been told to stay here as long as I 'm needed . ’ |
| 6 | She had even been going to write today as soon as Shirley had gone . |
| 7 | He or she could not be expected to emerge simply as the result of exposure to the properly approved values , though such exposure was crucial , hence the importance of suitable club workers , in particular those with a public-school background . |
| 8 | But a member of the cynical tendency jeers that after all this brouhaha , a Prime Minister who 's obsessed with political safety , will only allow minor pain , though back benchers will be encouraged to squeal so as to impress the markets . |
| 9 | 14.1 If and to the extent that s 6 and/or 7(3A) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 applies to the Order , no provision of these terms and conditions shall operate or be construed to operate so as to exclude or restrict the liability of the Seller for breach of the express warranties contained in Condition 5 , or for breach of the applicable warranties as to title and quiet possession implied into the terms and conditions of the Order by s 12(3) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , or s 2(3) of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , whichever Act applies to the Order . |
| 10 | 14.2 [ Where the Purchaser is a natural person ] [ and if and to the extent that s 2(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 applies to the Order , ] nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate or be construed to operate so as to exclude or restrict the liability of the Seller for death or personal injury caused [ to the Purchaser ] by reason of the negligence of the Seller or of its servants , employees or agents . |
| 11 | It is pointed out , for example , that if a government , having lost the confidence of the House , attempted to continue in power in breach of that convention , it would ultimately be forced to act illegally as Parliament would not grant it supply . |
| 12 | However forward-thinking the penologists , criminologists and bureaucrats in government departments may be , their views should not be allowed to prevail so as to impose a sentencing regime which is incomprehensible or unacceptable to right-thinking people generally . |
| 13 | He prayed that none would be tempted to act wrongly as the deceased had done . |
| 14 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |
| 15 | The adjustment mechanisms are assumed to operate smoothly as the new opportunities are grasped . |
| 16 | FOOTBALL fans who went to an Airdrieonians versus Ayr United league match 36 years ago have been asked to come forward as they could have vital information on a schoolgirl who disappeared in 1957 . |
| 17 | With rare exceptions , refugee children were expected to leave home as soon as they could fend for themselves . |
| 18 | In the early 1970s the new counties of Humberside and Avon were expected to grow rapidly as the population of the country expanded . |
| 19 | Thus the various indications , airspeed , altitude , rate of climb , attitude and magnetic heading were seen to move exactly as the pilot 's instruments had operated as the accident approached . |
| 20 | These items are kept locked away as essences can make a lethal cocktail and yeast can be used to make hooch , an illicit drink . |
| 21 | Right leg bent double , knee red from impact , a scatter of dark soil across her calf , as if she had been trying to run even as she fell . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't need me any longer — you 've found Garry , and I 'm sure he 's going to do just as you want , is n't he ? ’ |
| 23 | TOTTENHAM 'S uneasy boardroom truce is set to end today as Alan Sugar and Terry Venables rejoin battle in the High Court . |
| 24 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 25 | The second use of the z value is in depth cueing in which the intensity of the line is chosen to dim gradually as it recedes from the observer . |
| 26 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 27 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 28 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 29 | Only a slight chill in the air gave any indication that it was autumn , and even that was beginning to fade away as the sun blazed down again out of a clear blue sky . |
| 30 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |