Example sentences of "as [indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With enough computational skill , a contoured ‘ stained-glass ’ window in a church , say , could show a whole sequence of devotional images as someone walked down the aisle towards it . |
| 2 | The Saxon peasant worked from dawn until dusk and as one went down the class ladder life was harder . |
| 3 | As one goes up the scale , though , one finds that magmas of more granitic composition are involved and they and the lavas they produce are more viscous . |
| 4 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 5 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 6 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 7 | Protected Party Party Relying On Clause Class of Goods Non-consumer Business Commercial Business Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Non-consumer Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Business Business Consumer/Commercial Prima facie , it would appear that a court would be likely to find exclusions more reasonable as one proceeds down the matrix , and exclusions relating to consumer goods more reasonable than those relating to commercial goods . |
| 8 | The presence of Free Presbyterians increases as one moves up the party hierarchy . |
| 9 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 10 | Normally , the operators closest to the plant will have the most detailed information and this gets condensed or reduced as one moves up the hierarchy . |
| 11 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 12 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 13 | With a detailed map of the city in her shoulder-bag , plus a copy of the tourist board 's publication , Copenhagen This Week , she was as equipped as anyone to seek out the places to which Suzie would be drawn . |