Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 2 | We were busy overcoming problems inherent in the system so as to service customers — but no-one knew at what expense . |
| 3 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 4 | ‘ When I had my first implant , sir , ’ the soldier confessed , ‘ my old woman said to me , Frinza , he said , get yourself in the army soon as you can , boy . |
| 5 | STIRRUP cups were being raised in the country yesterday as hunt followers celebrated the Tory victory . |
| 6 | Then I 'll be on my own in the afternoon there as well . |
| 7 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 10 | Fastening my watch round my wrist I saw that it was after seven and I could hear the farm men clattering in the yard outside as they began their morning tasks . |
| 11 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 12 | I left the sack of heads and bodies in the Bunker just as the light was going completely and the stars were starting to come out . |
| 13 | As we have seen , metaphoric reversibility is figured in the text thematically as the condition of being suspended between ideologies , languages and countries , or as the act of crossing from one to another . |
| 14 | The Council asked " the conference to consider the extent to which the following rights [ as proposed by the Spanish government ] could be enshrined in the treaty so as to give substance to the concept of citizenship : |
| 15 | Set the iron plane well down in the vice so as not to obtain the plane cheeks , or else … ! |
| 16 | Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild . |
| 17 | Although the Poles could have exercised a military option in the north just as they had done in Silesia , by this time their involvement in a war against the infant Soviet state , over territories and borders in the eastern provinces , made this a logistical impossibility . |
| 18 | But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications . |
| 19 | The different scenarios are there in the past just as they are in the future , and it 's the historian 's job in a way to explain why there are different scenarios , and to give some idea of how many of them there are . |
| 20 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 21 | Were women involved in the work there as well ? |
| 22 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 23 | But my God , she could be a pain in the arse sometimes as well , you know . ’ |
| 24 | This in turn will enable it to influence prices in the market so as to ensure continuing profitability . |
| 25 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 26 | Singapore 's doubts with the Zone idea reflected the view that its interests and the interests of Great Power equilibrium would be best served by the involvement of all major powers in the region so as to enhance the prospects for a balance . |
| 27 | Cameras and sound recording equipment were discreetly sited in the shop so as to record all that occurred over the counter . |
| 28 | She looked him straight in the face now as she said , ‘ She does n't take such things into account ; she 's a law unto herself ’ |
| 29 | He just said , I stood , get in the car then as |
| 30 | ‘ You 're saying I can start in the office today as hostess — and that the job will be permanent ? |