Example sentences of "as we [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we noted at the beginning of the chapter , white , middle-class churches in Britain have a poor ‘ track record ’ on relating to artisan , West Indian and Asian cultures . |
| 2 | As we noted at the start , the policy concerns of the country in which academics work are an important factor in determining the kind of International Relations that they will study . |
| 3 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 4 | As we noted in the previous chapter , the nation of Israel occupied a central place in the realisation of this hope , serving as the gathering-point of the nations ( Isa. 24:23 ; Zech. 14:9 ; Obad. 21 ) . |
| 5 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 6 | As we noted in the introduction , however , problems arise as soon as one enquires about the relationship between ‘ science ’ and ‘ religion ’ in the past . |
| 7 | ( It is this shift which , as we noted in the Introduction , supplies the chief rationale for this book . ) |
| 8 | As we argued in the previous chapter , this profits squeeze fundamentally reflected overaccumulation . |
| 9 | As we argued throughout the proceedings of the European parliamentary elections bill , the Conservatives are entirely responsible for the fact that this process of drawing up the new European boundaries had to be compressed into such a short time . |
| 10 | As we parked outside the station Irena reversed into a 1964 Mark One Cortina , crushing a wing . |
| 11 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 12 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 13 | As we wrote at the time : |
| 14 | That night as we walked past the pub next door to the hotel we heard a band playing 60s songs . |
| 15 | I wished I had a boat as we walked down the steps , through the gate and the hundred yards or so to her door . |
| 16 | I could see the tiny figures of Harvey and myself moving on two of the screens as we walked across the floor . |
| 17 | They both knew that as we walked off the 16th . |
| 18 | As we walked up the river I began a monologue about how difficult it was to catch Don trout . |
| 19 | The tops of the trees in the palm grove rustled beneath us as we walked up the road , round the earthen rampart to the hotel . |
| 20 | And by the time we came out we were all a little bit tiddly , and as you know , Fred does n't dance any more , but as we walked up the street to the car , he started to tap dance . |
| 21 | As we walked along the path to the supermarket 's car park , I realised the danger susceptible adults like me were in from precocious and promiscuous children like this . |
| 22 | As we walked along the quayside , gunmen shadowed our every step . |
| 23 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 24 | I gripped my mum 's hand very tightly as we walked along the playground . |
| 25 | As we walked along the sand in the quietness , stopping to look at all the interesting things which had been washed up , the beach gradually disappeared . |
| 26 | Next to it as we walked towards the end of the street was a two-storey white building , freshly painted , though the old sign was weathered , ‘ New Zealand Government . |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , Jack , ’ I said , as we walked towards the putting green , ‘ there are lots of Ryder Cup points at stake here , and lots of lovely money too . ’ |
| 28 | As we walked towards the white chalk cliffs , a cacophony of sound greeted us : gruntings , trumpetings , squaw kings , me wings , growlings . |
| 29 | As we walked towards the doors , she rested her head on my shoulder . |
| 30 | As we walked towards the circle of Spiritualists , he turned to me and said , in a high , pleasant voice , ‘ I know you will come back to us , Simo ! |