Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely , a woman as beautiful as you has had proposals . ’ |
| 3 | The piece seems rooted in the symbolic , cabalistic use of language as she seeks to reclaim heritage and identity from fragments of text . |
| 4 | Remember the not uncommon example of the person who gets progressively tense and more frantic as she struggles to relax bits of her body to order . |
| 5 | Catch her , and check her , as she begins to hurl defiance at you ; do n't wait for her to complete her tirade . |
| 6 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 7 | The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself . |
| 8 | The daughter 's relationship with her mother is at its most intense as she prepares to give birth herself and , in a sense , to step into her mother 's shoes . |
| 9 | Such faith is a timely boost to the former Blaydon Harrier as she prepares to partner McColgan in the British women 's team at the World Cross Country Championships in Boston on Saturday . |
| 10 | In Middlemarch , George Eliot records Dorothea 's state of mind as she prepares to marry Mr Casaubon , a man she hardly knows : |
| 11 | Knowing the labyrinthine tax laws is essential , as she has to advise clients contesting tax bills at industrial tribunals , the High Court and perhaps even the European Court of Justice . |
| 12 | Cos every , cos really the should go direct to her , and it as she 's taken notice of you yet . |
| 13 | Awareness of the possible truth of paradox is a most helpful way in to appreciating the nature of religious language as it wrestles to express experience . |
| 14 | The fact that unsatisfied demand is itself a complex and unresolved problem for librarians does not diminish the problem as it relates to stock logistics . |
| 15 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 16 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 17 | He said it was essential that world business " should have an institutional mechanism enabling it to speak with a powerful voice as it seeks to influence governments and international organisations . " |
| 18 | The shrinkage of lava as it cools produces joints . |
| 19 | Lakatos 's account fares slightly better in this respect insofar as it does offer means by which some decisions of the scientific community might be criticized . |
| 20 | But notice that position A is socially preferred to B or C , involving as it does lower prices and greater output for both products . |
| 21 | The exhibition displays the as yet unwritten history of painting in the two Germanies , combining as it does abstract expressionists like H.Bachmayer , H.Prem and H.Sturm from the Munich ‘ Herzogstraße ’ group with works by C.Claus , G.Kozik , M.Morgner and S.Volmer from Chemnitz in Saxony . |
| 22 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 23 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 24 | East Midlands Electricity today announced a major reorganisation of its core electricity business as it aims to save £10m annually in operating costs . |
| 25 | This is no mean achievement as it means achieving Guild membership consistently for five successive years . |
| 26 | Christopher also seemed to indicate that the United States and its allies were considering a programme to provide Russia a kind of social safety net as it moves to free markets . |
| 27 | That idea raises three interlinked questions , answers to which should enlarge our understanding of social change as it has affected family relationships . |
| 28 | The report describes the guidance as ‘ unhelpful ’ , as it has left SSDs wondering whether recording unmet need will plunge them into costly judicial reviews . |
| 29 | X/Open says it is taking DCE on the same terms as it has taken object specifications from OMG . |
| 30 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |