Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 7 ) On remitting a case to a licensing board under subsection ( 6 ) above , the sheriff may : ( a ) specify a date by which the rehearing by the board must take place ; modify any procedural steps which otherwise would be required in relation to the matter by or under any enactment ; and any decision of a licensing board on any such case shall be valid as if reached at a quarterly meeting as mentioned in section 4(1) ( a ) of this Act . |
| 2 | Such troops sustain damage as if hit by the Fanatics |
| 3 | The reason : before that date registration on a company 's file of such a mortgage had effect as if registered as a land charge , thus giving notice to the world . |
| 4 | Although a common seal may still be used to execute a document , a document signed by a director and the secretary , or by two directors , and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company will have the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . |
| 5 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |
| 6 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 7 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 8 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 9 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
| 10 | However , while the result might well be the same , the reasoning of the Court of Appeal is to be preferred ; complete impartiality could not be expected and the term impartiality when used in the context of a minister making a decision such as the siting of a new town , would not necessarily be the same as when applied to a magistrate deciding a case of nuisance . |
| 11 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 12 | I can not get myself to react with critical coolness towards this music ; every tissue , every nerve vibrates in me and it is a long time since I had such an enduring feeling of rapture as when listening to the latter overture . " |
| 13 | With the double-width light on and knitting tuck , the stitch pattern is the same as when knitting on every needle without the light on . |
| 14 | As when working with a model of frictionless motion , it is useful to abstract from the real world with its impurities and interferences and to study an agent 's alternatives in an idealized setting . |
| 15 | ‘ Two weeks , ’ she managed to articulate , and then stood there , mouth clamped , feet rooted , as though turned to a pillar of salt , as though the deep deep boredom of childhood had reclaimed her , had rendered her helpless and speechless and powerless , the child in the attic , praying for time to pass and blood to flow . |
| 16 | He groped vaguely with his right hand as though reaching for a brush and as he did so he experienced an intolerable contraction in his chest , a paralysing pain , and with a cry of anguish he fell , taking the stool with him . |
| 17 | Her lower lip twitched as though plucked by an invisible finger . |
| 18 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 19 | Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions . |
| 20 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 21 | As though clinging to the last moments of a vanishing pleasure , he counted the baulks of timber edging darkly towards the boats . |
| 22 | ‘ Wait , my lovely , ’ he breathed , and took his eyes from her wanting , flushed face , to pull back and stare as though transfixed at the throbbing globes of her breasts . |
| 23 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |
| 24 | ( Artist 's heart now sinks at thought of fifteen-hour day on account of two ideas leading to twenty permutations of two-line scene : ‘ But Richard — ’ ‘ Yes , I know , but the thing is — er — let me put this another way ’ ( so far he has n't put it anyway ) — ‘ Look — ’ ( He freezes mid-pace , cocks his head as though listening to an external sound — which indeed he is — draws a deep breath through his nose , rolls up his eyes , turns down the corners of his mouth , then , forgetting to expel air because a new thought has struck him , he gasps : ) ‘ I 'll tell you what , right ? |
| 25 | A remarkable feature of the mountain is the tremendous gash on its eastern face , looking as though cut by a giant knife . |
| 26 | But remember ’ — he had lifted an arm now and was prodding with his forefinger as though pointing to the furthest corners of the country ( he was feeling the attention of the crowd and letting it recharge his energy ) , ‘ the people are mightier than a lord . ’ |
| 27 | For example , her most recent work involves a positive distancing — intimate objects as though shaken from the photographs appear in glass shoe boxes ready for inspection or classification . |
| 28 | ‘ Not beyond what he could hold , ’ said the Archdeacon firmly , as though stamping on a particularly pernicious untruth . |
| 29 | But anyone who takes the poem head-on , as though entering upon a piece of hitherto unfamiliar English verse , is bound to be struck by its crazy-paving of little-used or dialect words ( " shaws " ) , of samples from the literary lexicon ( " meads " , " unapparelled " ) , of old-tyme poetryspeak ( " thou wast not born for aye " ) , of dubiously archaic constructions ( " friend thee more " " steads him nothing " ) , of blended or cross-bred idioms ( " pure of stain " ) , of literary reminiscences ( " dust and dreams " — a most adroit rendering of , but one that inevitably recalls Shakespeare and " we are such stuff as dreams are made on " ) . |
| 30 | Ruby straddled a child 's moped and , as though mounted on a Wellsian Time Machine , skilfully manoeuvred into the heavy traffic on Cromwell Road . |