Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 2 | Before that though let's just er take in one of tonight 's Coca Cola Cup replays , as Shrewsbury have another chance to perform a giant killing act in that competition . |
| 3 | As cyclists choose shortest routes , the network should be dense , with virtually all roads accessible for cycle movement . |
| 4 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 5 | Wage inflation and overheating will be in prospect as employers chase scarce skills with higher payments . |
| 6 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 7 | Indeed , counter staff could also be trained to react to selective product selling opportunities as branches gain easier access to the contents of their customer database . |
| 8 | Just as computers overwrite out-of-date files on their disks , monks used to scrape useless manuscripts clean and recycle them . |
| 9 | The streets of a city as atmospheric and romantic as Bruges do strange things to a man . |
| 10 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 11 | As long as animals eat unhealthy plants , the vets will have to do likewise . |
| 12 | But just as speakers attach great importance to variation in the structural parts of language , so they must also attach great importance to change : if they did not , then there would be no reason why changes like this one should be accepted in speech communities . |
| 13 | Within three years of introducing its scheme , and as schools gain more experience of delegation , each LEA must aim to reduce this limit to the lower one of 7 per cent . |
| 14 | Forest Goblins decorate themselves with colourful feathers , often sticking the quills directly into their skin as Goblins feel little pain . |
| 15 | They have identified a new bacteriophage , a viral organism that infects bacteria just as viruses infect human cells , which is associated with the syndrome . |
| 16 | They could soon soar as companies seek pan-European economies of scale in areas like logistics as a response to cut-price competition . |
| 17 | It seems inevitable that redundancies will occur in the ports near the Tunnel as companies shed surplus capacity in an effort to improve productivity . |
| 18 | The other problem is that as companies shed more labour to remain competitive , the fewer people there are who have real spending power and that in itself will be a major inhibiting factor on recovery . |
| 19 | Consider again the natural harmonic series ( mentioned in Chapter 10 , ‘ Free Diatonicism ’ ) : the most consonant intervals are in the low registers , well apart , and as intervals become more dissonant they move into higher registers , where dissonance is hardly noticed . |
| 20 | As basses gain more strings and bassists push playing horizons further and further apart , Hartke 's technology is better placed than most to take advantage of the situation , especially as they reinforce this tonal definition with their use of smaller drivers . |
| 21 | Virtually all the Japanese martial arts use it as a means of producing extra power from within the body — just as weightlifters make great grunting and groaning noises when attempting a particularly heavy lift . |
| 22 | Our business is budgeted to expand by 25 per cent in 1993 and I expect trading conditions to improve as buyers appreciate current values and the affordability of our new homes . |
| 23 | As banks explore new ways of pleasing customers ( eg , by offering telephone-banking services ) , it becomes ever harder to paint broad-brush pictures of physical capacity . |
| 24 | Dermatitis is very common from contact with Crotons and as fish have permeable skin and no sterile tissue the poisoning effect was greatly increased . |
| 25 | As individuals reproduce these resources are necessarily depleted and the relation between the speed of their renewal and the rate of population growth governs the numbers of individuals that can live there . |
| 26 | Friendships quickly develop as guests help each other carry their beds back and forth . |
| 27 | As Canada break new ground in their struggle to remain a ‘ top eight ’ nation , PETER McMULLAN outlines the developments designed to see the Canucks succeed in the CANZ series and beyond … |
| 28 | International : Third ceasefire in Bosnia as troops seize more towns |
| 29 | And , as Italians have little sense of obligation to the state , relinquishing sovereignty to Brussels is no sacrifice . |
| 30 | They are created as firms seek new advantages by linking together markets and activities that previously were kept separate . |