Example sentences of "as they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this has any foundation in science or whether it reflects the old-fashioned ‘ punitive ’ approach , men up and down the country , known for their ten-pint capacity or love for fine wine , are receiving old-fashioned looks as they ask for a half-pint of lime juice or a tonic on its own . |
| 2 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 3 | As they expand to a much greater diameter ( 24 FG ) than plastic stents , they are not subject to occlusion by debris and bacteria , though some become blocked by tumour ingrowth between the stent mesh . |
| 4 | TSB invite readers to attend Saturday 's local County finals , which take place at the Bebington Oval , to cheer on Merseyside 's budding Christies and Gunnells as they fight for a place in the Merseyside team . |
| 5 | Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below . |
| 6 | Mendelson calls them ‘ macrobes , ’ artificial multi-celled organisms which change their morphology as they go through a sort of life cycle . |
| 7 | He takes her arm as they go for a closer look . |
| 8 | as they cling to a hand or an arm — |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe your dybbuk 's gone , ’ says Naomi afterwards , as they pause for a takeaway kebab . |
| 10 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 11 | His collected resolve in front of his officers is assuring his troops ' confidence in his controlled capacity to lead them as they prepare for an impending battle . |
| 12 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 13 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 14 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 15 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 16 | Kemp looks at her as they shrink within a dark cave , besieged by O'Brien and his men : |
| 17 | It 's the same with interest rates ; as long as they stay within a relatively narrow band , we can plan ahead . |
| 18 | I consider prepositions in prepositional phrases to be non-deictic , as they relate to an internal system in the way that , say , aspect relates to tense . |
| 19 | I did that on the basis that it is very difficult to scrutinise the Bill 's Scottish aspects , complicated and far-reaching as they are , as they impact on a very distinct and separate local government tradition and system within the framework of United Kingdom legislation . |
| 20 | Counting on us all , either to celebrate or drown our sorrows , are the big brewers as they embark on a results reporting season . |
| 21 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 22 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 23 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 24 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |
| 25 | So far , we have carefully avoided any suggestion of calculation , and we can still stay away from arithmetic by using tables for gore heights as they apply to a range of ‘ chute diameters . |
| 26 | In this respect , s14(5) of the SGA provides : The preceding provisions of this section apply to a sale by a person who in the course of a business is acting as agent for another as they apply to a sale by a principal in the course of a business , except where that other is not selling in the course of a business and either the buyer knows that fact or reasonable steps are taken to bring it to the notice of the buyer before the contract is made . |
| 27 | Points to note in connection with the documents Regard should be had to the following : ( 1 ) The City Code and , if either the bidder or the target is listed , the Yellow Book , apply to the scheme as they apply to a takeover offer . |
| 28 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 29 | As has already been mentioned , insider traders also face the possibility of conviction under the US mail and wire fraud statutes in so far as they participate in a ‘ scheme … to defraud ’ ( ie breach of s.10b and Rule 10b-5 ) where use has been made of the postal system or telephonic communication . |
| 30 | Spurs are missing six first-teamers , including Anderton , Paul Allen and Gordon Durie , as they bid for a fifth successive clean sheet against Manchester City at Maine Road today . |