Example sentences of "as they [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ace made love to her in a silence made all the more potent when her roving caresses forced him to respond with a groan of pleasure as they touched each other intimately .
2 Sharp heeled shoes are not allowed inside buildings as they cause great damage .
3 Delegates rescinded the Freedom Charter 's commitment to comprehensive nationalization , confirming more recent statements by the leadership [ see p. 38516 ] as they agreed that emphasis should be placed on a mixed economy .
4 As they require considerable water quantities it is the insurance companies view that water is better applied through a sprinkler system as and where required .
5 Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing .
6 As they pitched one client after another , the dealers surrounding them would cheer , shouting " Go .
7 The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures .
8 On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution .
9 The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence .
10 If you must have chips do them thick cut , as they absorb less fat that way .
11 Whereas Siward , as a direct vassal of England , had appeared on every battlefield with his Northumbrian levies and knew their strength , as they knew each other 's .
12 And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed .
13 They can share knowledge as they put research-based theory into practice .
14 Apparently if click on one particular size that they can get it from , that could wipe out 's business cos as soon as they click one size , then 'll be in and wipe the floor with them .
15 These documents form a basis for the history of Jacques le Romain and his father , Martin ; they make possible the revision of the most recently published Hotteterre genealogical charts , especially as they document three Hotteterre makers previously unidentified , including one who lived in London in the service of the King ; and they offer clarification of the Hotteterre makers ' marks , and alter our view of how the three-piece flute of the early Baroque developed into the four-piece flute with corps de rechange .
16 Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison .
17 Austrian hat manufacturers wept with emotion as they offered untold wealth for a single specimen .
18 As long as they get some exposure to written language , most learners will acquire at least a modicum of literacy .
19 The four , plus some genuine goodies like Alas Smith and Jones , The Goodies and Alexei Sayle 's Stuff , are about to experience a resurgence in popularity as they get another airing .
20 As they get more money , or a new baby is born , they add what is called another roof , which basically means another room .
21 So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse .
22 HEALTH ministers were accused of a massive ‘ leap in the dark ’ yesterday as they prepared another shake-up of the NHS .
23 Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief .
24 Signed Danish is not Danish , when you can not hear/distinguish the words — but another type of sign language , which has the primary advantage that hearing people can use it at the same time as they use spoken language , and the secondary advantage is that some — and only some — rules applying to the spoken language are conveyed to the deaf child .
25 And as they use more plastic , chemicals and metals , so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous .
26 They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption .
27 As they rounded another bend she saw the lighted windows of the Swan Inn , relief swept through her .
28 As they got one face off we 'd turn them , over , the pans had to be turned over and backs built you see ?
29 Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil .
30 We talk to hoteliers and developers on a day to day basis , we work with them as they make long term plans .
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