Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 2 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 3 | On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it . |
| 4 | My cynicism about the event burgeoned as I walked past stalls displaying rustic-effect patio furniture , cushion covers embroidered with pheasants , and the kind of waxed country overwear that is increasingly seen sported by commuters on the tube these days . |
| 5 | They have varying effects on humans and as I discovered disastrous effects on fish . |
| 6 | A pre-warned Kenneth had plied John and his girl-friend Rosie with champagne to deaden the effect of the coming lunch , as I chased huge lumps round a pan of watery pulp that started life as potato . |
| 7 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 8 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 9 | Yes it 's very situational , erm I think , as I think human beings are so erm so , so I think you , you 're gon na have |
| 10 | As I notice various strategies I frequently draw the class together and encourage them to share ideas . |
| 11 | And as you know binary decoders list all the possible states of the input erm conditions . |
| 12 | I mean I think the , I , I think it can effect this , but not that materially erm there are many as you know different provinces round the world and what happens in the C I S is , is obviously very important for the Middle East and so erm it will have an impact . |
| 13 | Dig the soil to the depth of a spade or fork , and clear out the rubbish as you go large stones , glass , china , bottle tops , sticks , wire , plastic and so on — at the same time mixing in a thin layer of rotted garden compost , especially if the soil is shallow and only a few cm ( in ) deep on top of chalk subsoil . |
| 14 | Just as you keep much-lived garments in your closet slip into long after they 've gone out of style , bottles of your favourite fragrance still have a place in your library of perfumes , too . |
| 15 | It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 16 | It 's a great way to make friends with your fellow explorers as you discover different islands . |
| 17 | As you add explanatory notes , offer all the help you would hope to find , as a reader , in an annotated edition if you yourself were studying this particular text for the first time . |
| 18 | Do you have any anxiety as you anticipate sexual relations ? |
| 19 | Do n't list exceptions at the same time as you discuss particular spellings : acknowledge them but do n't make a fuss about them . |
| 20 | As you shouted armed police where were your hands ? |
| 21 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 22 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 23 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 24 | The blind woman quivered as she skryed light years outward through the warp , obeying the disciplines of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , seeking contact with the mind of some other Astropath serving the fortress-monastery at Vindict V. |
| 25 | He came in and sat next to Juliet , watching her as she checked fluid-balance sheets . |
| 26 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 27 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 28 | Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face . |
| 29 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 30 | Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan . |