Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant .
2 I always think of er as I say new bread always brings me back a lot of memories .
3 It wo n't recalculate automatically as you enter new data .
4 What is important to us is that all the areas will now use the same software for interrogation purposes , and as we develop new enhancements , details are released to all other areas .
5 ‘ Today I say to our financial and business leaders that although change is on the horizon , we understand the need to pursue stability even as we pursue new growth .
6 A third man joined them as they sought new sticks .
7 Heads as they appoint new staff have the chance to turn the long-term realization of a school 's plan into a shared reality , but the same commitment can also be won from those teachers who are at a school when a new head arrives .
8 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
9 ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure .
10 Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp .
11 What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ?
12 Changes within capitalism generate new forms of spatial organization at the same time as they create new forms of social organization .
13 His claims are certain to escalate into a big political scandal , following as they do new evidence linking Mrs Mandela to the murder of a prominent Soweto doctor .
14 First , as they add new words to their repertoires , they stop over-extending words from the same domain already in their vocabulary ( Clark 1973a ; Barrett , 1978 ) .
15 Tidy up borders , but wait until spring before taking dead foliage off herbaceous plants , as it protects new shoots .
16 The ‘ succession ’ of plant life as it colonises new territory takes the vegetation of the areas through a series of phases , culminating in woodland .
17 Some commentators see The Stock Exchange 's rejection of the option to relaunch and reposition the second market as a mistake , as it deprives new growth companies of a low cost source of equity capital .
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