Example sentences of "as [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 2 | Im not quite as down on the performance as others seem to be . |
| 3 | Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types . |
| 4 | Kevin Fagan 's Excess XS presents the ultimate dramatic ( as in on the stage , not tabloid-style blind sensationalism ) look at Ecstasy and the North-west dance scene . |
| 5 | Under Welch and Redfarn , The Theatre Royal has co-funded productions with other theatrical managements and a consortium of West Country businessmen , embracing such shows as Up On The Roof , Brigadoon and the about-to-open Buddy , as well as working with touring companies such as Paines Plough to launch a national tour of The Art Of Success . |
| 6 | The judges clearly had a predilection for this style , the Second Empire mode as Hitchcock calls it , as out of the total of fourteen prizes for the offices , seven were awarded to designs in this style , including the first and second in each class . |
| 7 | Since import controls on the necessary scale were regarded as out of the question , a precarious combination of international borrowing and expenditure-restriction was embarked upon . |
| 8 | By the first decade of the twentieth century the majority of medics saw return to enforced regulation of VD as out of the question . |
| 9 | Given this degree of ambiguity in the chronological indicators , it certainly can not be regarded as out of the question that Oswiu died and Ecgfrith became king in the early months of 671 . |