Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 2 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 3 | As one goes up the scale , though , one finds that magmas of more granitic composition are involved and they and the lavas they produce are more viscous . |
| 4 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 5 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 6 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 7 | Protected Party Party Relying On Clause Class of Goods Non-consumer Business Commercial Business Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Non-consumer Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Business Business Consumer/Commercial Prima facie , it would appear that a court would be likely to find exclusions more reasonable as one proceeds down the matrix , and exclusions relating to consumer goods more reasonable than those relating to commercial goods . |
| 8 | The presence of Free Presbyterians increases as one moves up the party hierarchy . |
| 9 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 10 | Normally , the operators closest to the plant will have the most detailed information and this gets condensed or reduced as one moves up the hierarchy . |
| 11 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 12 | The Kings Collins Cross terminal as it says here the Kings Cross er terminal for the cross channel route is also of vital importance and in fact it could be that with the development of a high speed , the high speed train services between not only London but also the North of England into the European local structure , that the need for |
| 13 | As it goes away the reverse is the case . |
| 14 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 15 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 17 | Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population . |
| 18 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 19 | If the vacuum gap diminishes slightly , as it does when the tip approaches a bump on the surface , the current increases . |
| 20 | As it does so the timbers expand . |
| 21 | My German worked like a dream , like a brilliant robot you switch on and stand back and admire as it does all the hard work . |
| 22 | Place a greaseband round the trunk of apple trees to catch the wingless female winter moth as it crawls up the tree from the soil in an attempt to lay its eggs . |
| 23 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 24 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
| 25 | The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service . |
| 26 | Utilitarianism is a properly ethical theory , inasmuch as it puts forward the basics of a moral position , while emotivism belongs to what is sometimes called meta-ethics which professes to explain the nature of what is going on when an ethical or moral view is advocated . |
| 27 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 28 | This methyl mercury is absorbed by small organisms in the water which are eaten by fish which are eaten by larger fish , and all the time the poison is being concentrated as it moves up the food chain . |
| 29 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 30 | The college can not justify the use of its facilities , let along expand its activities , as it has neither the resources or required support facilities . |