Example sentences of "as [subord] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as if a manor of thy friends |
| 2 | Er that which makes it as critical as as a lot of er paper work . |
| 3 | They recognized ambiguity , in cases where , for example , a pronoun might have one of two referents ; they recognized syntactical mistakes , as when a character in the story not previously mentioned was introduced as ‘ the passerby ’ , when the indefinite article would have been appropriate ; they quickly spotted mistakes in tense . |
| 4 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 5 | Sometimes , as when a plate of a fossil shows its matrix in detail , or that of a fish shows the river where it was caught , we are given more information than we needed — though such details may help to balance the tone of the plate and thus have an aesthetic function . |
| 6 | She missed her so dreadfully when she was away , as though a part of her very own body was missing . |
| 7 | It therefore looks as though a decade in which her political nerves had always been stretched was succeeded by a dangerous level of confidence when the situation became apparently so much safer ; she was no longer walking a tightrope , and she now walked too boldly on the ground . |
| 8 | It was as though a chapter in the conversation had finished . |
| 9 | Whenever he did , it was as though a bolt of red-hot lightning streaked through her body , reducing her to a quivering jelly . |
| 10 | There was some dark object on the ground from which every now and again it seemed as though a piece of wood rose hesitantly and fell . |
| 11 | Outside , the storm howled about the house as though a pack of wild wolves were trying to get in . |
| 12 | The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post . |
| 13 | At best , it looked as though a period of baronial bargaining between the two rival candidates , such as we find in Stephen 's reign , would develop ; but it was more likely that Henry would disappear in the coming struggle . |
| 14 | It would look as though a mountain of flowers was moving through the car park all on its own . |
| 15 | In a later work , ‘ She Loved to Breathe — Pure Silence ’ , 1987 ( First shown in the Devil 's Feast , Chelsea School of Art ) spices lie beneath the suspended images as though a crystallisation of the colours used in the images above : a dead bird lies beside an embroidered shoe , or on its own , under fragile netting . |
| 16 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 17 | The musket-balls slammed across the small stream and bent the rye crop as though a squall of wind had struck the stalks . |