Example sentences of "as [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who see that high training encourages success , as obviously it does for Nissan , will follow the designs and needs of the marketplace and will themselves introduce high training . |
| 2 | Moreover , few types of resource-based learning are as clearcut as perhaps they sound to the newcomer ; there is always the possibility , indeed the likelihood , that at any one point the teacher may find it necessary to intervene , to establish a point , to correct a set of errors , to reinforce an insight , or to bring in an additional set of experiences , including the experience of argument and group debate while the interest is hot . |
| 3 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 4 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 5 | Phillip 's niece , Priscilla Pescott , said at her home in Victoria : ‘ It 's not right to think of Uncle Phillip as just somebody waiting in the wings for Marje Proops . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a long time since anyone cared for you as tonight you cared for Ana , is it not ? ’ he asked softly , his hand coming to tilt her downcast face . |
| 7 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 8 | As always he waited for Garry to decide what games were to be played . |
| 9 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 10 | All that changed , as inevitably it had to , but it was lovely and warm and fulfilling while it lasted . |
| 11 | ‘ When we had a quiz , as often we did in the caravans waiting for filming to begin , Ken always won hands down . ’ |
| 12 | I seemed to be standing outside myself and observing , as often one does on the most dramatic occasions of life . |
| 13 | ‘ And dear Joe , you have the best wife in the world , and she will make you as happy as even you deserve to be , dear good Joe ! ’ |
| 14 | He now wants his heirs to be kings as well which goes against the witches prophecy of Banquo 's heirs being kings and not Macbeth 's . |
| 15 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 16 | up and call me now A little music as well we have on the show we have a video from Elvis to give away in the second half of the programme and star guest this afternoon is Mary Whitehouse . |
| 17 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 18 | you probably think you put a lot into , yeah , it 's the remind as well I think like the constant remind of you were the one that takes responsibility for birthdays and for Christmas presents |
| 19 | What this suggests is that perception and cognition go hand in hand ( as indeed they do in modern psychological theories ) : the eye does not passively record objects in the raw , but structures and schematizes them in cognitively coded groupings . |
| 20 | On balance he 'd have preferred to have seen them take on a top world fast bowler to ease the new-ball burden on him — as indeed they intended before negotiations with Australia 's Craig McDermott broke down months before the start of the season — but sees at least one advantage in having a star batsman rather than bowler . |
| 21 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
| 22 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 23 | She is , of course , a parody of her pale , former Habsburg self , but Gironella 's title , La Reina Negra , suggests a range of different resonances , as indeed it does in English . |
| 24 | In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring . |
| 25 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 26 | He objected strenuously to the terms of the ceasefire resolution passed by the UN Security Council on April 3rd ; but he accepted it ( as indeed he had to ) and is obeying its terms , more or less . |
| 27 | At first there were branches only in Glasgow , Edinburgh , Dumfries , Kilmarnock and Paisley : as yet none existed in Dundee , Perth , Inverness or Aberdeen . |
| 28 | And you might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb , as doubtless they say on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 29 | Oh , you telephoned me the very next night from Prague , ’ she remembered , as too she remembered without difficulty , ‘ I thought you might have rung in connection with that wretched , abominable interview , but you were so bad-tempered … ’ |