Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 2 | No , the problem was banks were giving away their commissions to investors as inducements to buy expensively-priced bonds , the result of new issues arranged by banks desperate to maintain market share . |
| 3 | As cyclists choose shortest routes , the network should be dense , with virtually all roads accessible for cycle movement . |
| 4 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 5 | Wage inflation and overheating will be in prospect as employers chase scarce skills with higher payments . |
| 6 | This has had the effect that for centuries Emmental farmsteads and lands have had great historical continuity as units accumulated agricultural wealth and skills ; and they have given the landscape very impressive and characteristic features : the majestic farmsteads with enormous double-thatched roofs extending like half-folded wings nearly to ground level at the sides and encompassing under one giant roof not only living quarters but also stables , barns and other ancillary accommodation . |
| 7 | As public relations , and hence press relations , becomes more professional and expert , and as journalists need more ideas and information , so there is growing a greater recognition by media of the role public relations can play in a positive way to help them . |
| 8 | Indeed , counter staff could also be trained to react to selective product selling opportunities as branches gain easier access to the contents of their customer database . |
| 9 | Just as computers overwrite out-of-date files on their disks , monks used to scrape useless manuscripts clean and recycle them . |
| 10 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 11 | As long as animals eat unhealthy plants , the vets will have to do likewise . |
| 12 | But just as speakers attach great importance to variation in the structural parts of language , so they must also attach great importance to change : if they did not , then there would be no reason why changes like this one should be accepted in speech communities . |
| 13 | Within three years of introducing its scheme , and as schools gain more experience of delegation , each LEA must aim to reduce this limit to the lower one of 7 per cent . |
| 14 | Forest Goblins decorate themselves with colourful feathers , often sticking the quills directly into their skin as Goblins feel little pain . |
| 15 | The nightshift helped in this task , restricted to the ground floor initially , then onto the first floor in a massive clean up operation as electricians isolated affected areas . |
| 16 | They have identified a new bacteriophage , a viral organism that infects bacteria just as viruses infect human cells , which is associated with the syndrome . |
| 17 | They could soon soar as companies seek pan-European economies of scale in areas like logistics as a response to cut-price competition . |
| 18 | It seems inevitable that redundancies will occur in the ports near the Tunnel as companies shed surplus capacity in an effort to improve productivity . |
| 19 | The other problem is that as companies shed more labour to remain competitive , the fewer people there are who have real spending power and that in itself will be a major inhibiting factor on recovery . |
| 20 | Consider again the natural harmonic series ( mentioned in Chapter 10 , ‘ Free Diatonicism ’ ) : the most consonant intervals are in the low registers , well apart , and as intervals become more dissonant they move into higher registers , where dissonance is hardly noticed . |
| 21 | The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war . |
| 22 | Just as Pachystomias uses light waves invisible to its prey , many animals rely on sound waves to sense their surroundings , using wavelengths that others can not hear . |
| 23 | As basses gain more strings and bassists push playing horizons further and further apart , Hartke 's technology is better placed than most to take advantage of the situation , especially as they reinforce this tonal definition with their use of smaller drivers . |
| 24 | Virtually all the Japanese martial arts use it as a means of producing extra power from within the body — just as weightlifters make great grunting and groaning noises when attempting a particularly heavy lift . |
| 25 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 26 | Our business is budgeted to expand by 25 per cent in 1993 and I expect trading conditions to improve as buyers appreciate current values and the affordability of our new homes . |
| 27 | As banks explore new ways of pleasing customers ( eg , by offering telephone-banking services ) , it becomes ever harder to paint broad-brush pictures of physical capacity . |
| 28 | As individuals reproduce these resources are necessarily depleted and the relation between the speed of their renewal and the rate of population growth governs the numbers of individuals that can live there . |
| 29 | Friendships quickly develop as guests help each other carry their beds back and forth . |
| 30 | But there was growing competition also between building societies and banks , as banks moved into the housing loan market , and from National Savings as governments used National Savings more aggressively as a means of financing their own borrowing requirements . |