Example sentences of "as [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A closer correspondence between behavioural and neuropsychological estimates of speech lateralisation is obtained by only considering ear differences that reach a specified level of statistical significance ( Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) but as Satz ( 1977 ) has argued , the probability of mis-classifying a right hander with a dichotic left ear advantage as right brained for speech is of the order of 90 per cent ( see Chapter 5 ) !
2 Implicit in it is a belief in the nobility of the suffering victim and a judgement that sees the working class as inevitably corrupted by material things .
3 Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph .
4 Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO .
5 He saw this society as increasingly menaced by industrialization which , particularly in the cities , where power was now centralized , was cutting off the population from its roots .
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