Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annabel 's call from Scott came through to Saracen just as dinner was announced . |
| 2 | Both the plaintiff and defendant were free to practice either as doctors in a hospital or as medical consultants . |
| 3 | If then Regulation 5 is amenable to review so as to remove the compulsion upon the employee to transfer , whilst leaving the compulsion upon the employer in place , then the employee will indeed have a right to refuse to go over to the transferee , at least until such time as the government recasts the law . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't — ’ she cried , shaking her head from side to side even as her body yearned towards his . |
| 5 | I entertained Heather to lunch there as well . |
| 6 | As far as the passengers were concerned , the unscheduled stop and the sight of an ambulance drawn up on the quayside lent an element of excitement to spirits which were beginning to flag slightly as the end of the cruise loomed closer . |
| 7 | It can be a prelude to inquiry just as questions are a spur to searching . |
| 8 | A normal 2¼ does not run out of steam at 60mph Check that on full throttle the carb is actually on full throttle 24v distributors do not have provision for a vacuum ignition timing advance only a mechanical system which is prone to failure Also as the 24v plugs are very expensive these are seldom changed once out of the forces A cure this You do not comment on the general state of the engine possibly a decoke , piston rings and cylinder head skim ( up to 65 thousandsths of an inch ) which will give you the performance and reliability you require |
| 9 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |
| 10 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 11 | Mm I 'm going to bed then as soon as it hits twelve . |
| 12 | huh , have to got to bed earlier as well , what was I gon na say erm what exams you got on Wednesday ? |
| 13 | Yet they are as important to life here as night and day , as winter and summer , as birth and death . |
| 14 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 15 | The book begins to date immediately as new drugs come out and as the authorities amend the list of banned substances from time to time . |
| 16 | Finally , there is a latent essentialism in his work , and this comes out in his use of ‘ the body ’ as a final court of appeal , as that which is irreducible to power even as power invests it . |
| 17 | The poem is divided into three quatrains each moving closer to death just as the poet himself is approaching his demise . |
| 18 | The royals take an obscure pride in their penny-pinching , details of which are leaked to the press from time to time so as to suggest that they are , in fact , just like us . |
| 19 | It has always been my belief that a class of our type needs to review its rules from time to time so as not to become outdated . |
| 20 | He increased the magnetism of his boots to maximum so as to draw himself down . |