Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 2 | He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well . |
| 3 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 6 | Whilst the husband and wife as owners of the legal estate can make a conveyance or transfer as trustees to the wife alone as discussed in the previous section , there seems no good reason , when the husband conveys or releases his beneficial interest to the wife , why she should not receive the benefit of the " beneficial owner " covenants ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | Lower each slab on to the sand so as not to disturb it . |
| 8 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
| 9 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |
| 10 | The position detector is orientated relative to the rotor so as to generate signals at the optimum switching angle for low motor speeds and therefore , at the end of the first Step , a step command is issued immediately . |
| 11 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 12 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 13 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 14 | After several such pairings , the dogs learned to salivate to the music just as they had previously salivated to the food . |
| 15 | But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D . |
| 16 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 17 | VINNY Jones nailed his colours to the wall yesterday as he swapped his Chelsea shirt for a Wimbledon one . |
| 18 | ‘ Connors and I got to the hotel just as your boys were leaving , ’ I continued . |
| 19 | I was simply trying to emulate … ’ but whatever she might have said was lost to the word forever as she crumpled bonelessly to the floor in a dead faint . |
| 20 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 21 | But the fact that the medical profession has , for example , tended to restrict entry to the profession so as to preserve status , jobs and income , does not imply that I should withhold my trust in the ability and intention of my doctor to act in my best interests . |
| 22 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 23 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 24 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 25 | The neck is fixed to the body exactly as on the Teardrop , and my comment about the strap button on that guitar also applies here ; the Phantom is very neck heavy and needs all the help it can get to stay on an even keel . |
| 26 | I flattened to the street just as the first shots were fired … |
| 27 | HIS BEST BIB AND CHUCKER GAZZA tosses his training bib to the ground yesterday as he confronts Lazio team boss Dino Zoff |
| 28 | Gifted professional golfers have a duty to the game just as tournament administrators have a duty to defend the integrity of sport . |
| 29 | Now Sir Peter chairs Midland Bank and the same managers of the Kuwait state investments are doing their utmost to dump Midland shares on to the market just as Hongkong & Shanghai makes its bid . |
| 30 | It is expected that a draft of the proposed Railway Clearing House submission will have been completed prior to the meeting so as to form a basis for discussion . |