Example sentences of "as [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 2 | In my suggested audition pieces , I have not included any of the well known speeches from such modern classics as Look Back in Anger , by John Osborne , or Roots , by Arnold Wesker although these plays are revived frequently in many theatres . |
| 3 | Not only were there no great causes left , as Look Back in Anger would have it . |
| 4 | Approximately one-quarter of the cases involved girls aged under 10 , one-quarter involving girls aged between 10 and 12 , one-quarter involving girls as teenagers up to the age of 18 and the remaining one-quarter of the cases involved adult women . |
| 5 | Olivetti vice chairman Elserino Piol indicated that the Italian firm may also move Destiny — Unix SVR4.2 — as well as UnixWare on to its Alpha hardware in due course . |
| 6 | As youngsters up to London for the day , for example , we once took it in on the basis that bona fide sports followers should try everything once . |
| 7 | Always , as worms out of an apple , as maggots out of meat , mutants emerged and fled — if they could — into the hinterland . |
| 8 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 9 | She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white . |
| 10 | Always , as worms out of an apple , as maggots out of meat , mutants emerged and fled — if they could — into the hinterland . |
| 11 | I 'm referring to the Russian stars Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov , who set the skating world alight as partners back in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | In most regions , the new growth is entirely due to changes in net migration , as movement out of the conurbations has exceeded the inflow to these areas , and low or convergent rates of natural increase have provided a passive background for these trends . |
| 13 | There are as many people as turn up at an average Sunderland boilermakers branch meeting . |
| 14 | Officers wore scrimshaws as jewellery along with the most noble , holy decorations incorporating tiny slivers of the Emperor 's own armour from aeons ago , prior to the time when that Divine Immortal was prisoned in his prosthetic golden throne . |
| 15 | The relatively short toes indicate a concentration on prey which includes snakes and other reptiles , as well as mammals up to the size of small antelopes . |
| 16 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 17 | Do they have ballads about transporting the two white men dressed as women up to the great watery anaconda to the south , or however they might put it ? |