Example sentences of "as [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |