Example sentences of "as [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs . |
| 2 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 3 | I can see no reasons in principle for limiting the availability of certiorari to a patent excess of power ( as where a visitor has decided something which was not within his remit ) and excluding review on other grounds recognised by the law . |
| 4 | But in Nephila and many other spiders , the value of b will be low as once a male has located a female 's web , he stays there . |
| 5 | The distinction is unlikely to make much difference , as once a duty has been found to exist , the standard of care will be the same , reasonable care in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 6 | He holds , therefore , under the same terms in equity as if a lease has been granted … |
| 7 | Ruth was silent , as stunned as if a bus had driven into her . |
| 8 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 9 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 10 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 11 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 12 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 13 | To anyone familiar with the conventions of the second-person singular in modern European languages it is no surprise to learn that Shakespeare preserves the distinction You/Thou primarily to express the relationship far/near , as when a parent addresses a child ( or a master a servant ) as Thou and receives You in reply . |
| 14 | Even so , he was called upon to sign documents on occasions , as when a conveyance relating to the chapel and its land was prepared in 1805 and his name as witness ( 'John Titford , Cardmaker' ) appears alongside those of John Lacey , shoemaker , Richard Butler , weaver , and James Browning , clothier ; together they form a nice little thumb-nail sketch of the kind of men who were ‘ Chapel ’ rather than ‘ Church ’ at this period . |
| 15 | Confrontation with a novel or unexpected event , in which few replicative aspects are evident , may mean that inappropriate constructs come to be applied as when a viewer orientated towards figurative painting attempts to discover recognizable content with an abstract work . |
| 16 | ‘ We ’ may be used in a number of status-embedded ways , as when a doctor addresses a patient with ‘ How are we feeling ? ’ or an adult says to a child ‘ Have we lost our voice , then ? ’ . |
| 17 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 18 | And as she met the dark gaze of Guido Falcone , her breath caught as though a fist had connected with her solar plexus . |
| 19 | Spend half an hour in a feeding centre and you walk away feeling as though a nightmare has flashed before you . |
| 20 | The Trunchbull let out a yell and leapt off her chair as though a firecracker had gone off underneath her . |
| 21 | She felt suddenly depressed , as though a darkness lay upon her . |
| 22 | She was pierced by his compassion , powerless to stem the flood of tears welling up as though a dam had finally burst within her . |
| 23 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 24 | A roughly made small felt dog which I do n't recognise , it looks as though a child has made it . |
| 25 | Suddenly , we all heard a loud bang from the back bedroom of the second cottage , as though a door had been slammed hard . |
| 26 | She thought that although she might one day be able to accept this stupid time hiccup , she would never ever come to terms with these brief glimpses into another world ; as though a door had opened and closed and that , for a moment , she had stood with one foot on either side of the threshold . |
| 27 | It was n't the wound that worried him , though his arm still ached as though a steam-hammer had landed on it . |
| 28 | Her rump burned as though a bonfire had been lit under it , and she realised she was standing upright . |
| 29 | It looked as though a grader had been over it just before the Amazonian rains had spilled over the Andes . |
| 30 | She felt as though a web had been thrown over her , the same web in which — ; however little he knew it — Edwin Frere was deeply entangled . |