Example sentences of "as [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news headlined the Utah work as ‘ a remarkable breakthrough ’ . |
| 2 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 3 | Approximately one-quarter of the cases involved girls aged under 10 , one-quarter involving girls aged between 10 and 12 , one-quarter involving girls as teenagers up to the age of 18 and the remaining one-quarter of the cases involved adult women . |
| 4 | The Dorsal Arms of the Tentorium — these arise not as invaginations of the wall of the head but as outgrowths either from the body of the tentorium or from the bases of the anterior arms . |
| 5 | Of insect attack , that by bruchids of Scheelea zonensis ( Palmae ) in central America is greater , the nearer the mother plant and early survival of Virola surinamensis there is enhanced by being away from the parental crown , as seedlings closer to the bole suffer attack from weevils . |
| 6 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 8 | But Norwich manager Mike Walker remained coy about the destination of the Championship saying : ‘ It would be stupid to say we will win it but we have as good as chance now as the others . |
| 9 | I 'm referring to the Russian stars Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov , who set the skating world alight as partners back in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | In most regions , the new growth is entirely due to changes in net migration , as movement out of the conurbations has exceeded the inflow to these areas , and low or convergent rates of natural increase have provided a passive background for these trends . |
| 11 | Their proposed solutions are transferred to schools in Europe and subsequently to schools everywhere else , and notional/functional syllabuses are peddled as nostrums all over the place as suitable for every situation . |
| 12 | The referees for the 1991 World Cup were always going to be placed under close scrutiny by the media , as well as spectators both at the ground and watching on television , and so it turned out . |
| 13 | Officers wore scrimshaws as jewellery along with the most noble , holy decorations incorporating tiny slivers of the Emperor 's own armour from aeons ago , prior to the time when that Divine Immortal was prisoned in his prosthetic golden throne . |
| 14 | The relatively short toes indicate a concentration on prey which includes snakes and other reptiles , as well as mammals up to the size of small antelopes . |
| 15 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 16 | Well , yes , that 's absolutely right , and I think we 've always taken it as part of our responsibilities here really that they should extend over towards students in schools as well as students here at the university , and we do of course do quite a lot , in various ways , across the science area , to contribute towards science in schools . |
| 17 | Greatly daring , as Non-conformists even in the war years did not go lightly into an Anglican Church , I went in and sat down . |
| 18 | Do they have ballads about transporting the two white men dressed as women up to the great watery anaconda to the south , or however they might put it ? |