Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A standard method of collecting image data was used : i.e. respondents were presented with a card listing 20 towns and cities which they then scored as interviewers read out 12 pairs of statements , each representing the positive and negative sides of an image dimension . |
| 2 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 3 | Ethel bounced ahead , crashing joyfully through the russet bracken , then splashing and rolling in the stream , spooking as ponies loomed out of the dusk . |
| 4 | 150 firemen were drafted in as flames swept through and destroyed number eight hangar . |
| 5 | Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut 's image of World War Two in reverse ( Europe 's wounds healing as bombs rise up into planes ) , Amis sends the life of a Nazi war criminal spinning backwards , undoing all the evil and sending the Jews home . |
| 6 | Only as discussions settled down to specifics did some of the reasoning become clear . |
| 7 | The general reason why this is such an important component is that other genes also change , as generations go by in evolution . |
| 8 | As generations went by , some strategies became scarcer and eventually went extinct . |
| 9 | IBM third quarter losses exceed the gross domestic product of California as warehouses fill up with unsold RS/6000s . |
| 10 | Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns . |
| 11 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 12 | As experts point out children like Lee and Dick play quite happily with their brothers and sisters who can see . |
| 13 | As scouts sent out by the locals to reconnoitre the otherwise mysterious life-styles of the newcomers such people are terribly influential in defining the image of the newcomers among the locals — ; and of the locals among the newcomers-Gossip which is reported back easily becomes magnified in order to contribute further to the stereotypes . |
| 14 | This had argued , dogmatically and with no scientific evidence , that there were three types of child mind — the academic , the practical , and the non-verbal — which was , as contemporaries pointed out , happily coincident with existing types of school . |
| 15 | Butterflies as big as birds fell down from the branches , wings flopping limply . |
| 16 | By the end of 1986 about 70 per cent of the 27,600 miners employed by the state mining company COMIBOL had been made redundant as mines shut down . |
| 17 | As vets hammered out their new policy at a stormy meeting in London , one famous dog was happy just to be back with her owners at the home of Governor Patten . |
| 18 | As crowds headed back into the West End after a 1,000lb IRA bomb was defused , the Met 's Commissioner-in-waiting Paul Condon said normal daily life must go on . |
| 19 | The Blitz crew take a doorbell each , and soon Chris is scuttling across the corporation lino as heads pop out from doors like the stops of a fairground organ . |
| 20 | But worries about psychologists ' neutrality continually resurface in the discipline , in a history which includes 1960s concerns with experimenter effects ; 1970s ethogeny ; a 1980s preoccupation with the social representations which psychologists as well as subjects draw on ; and a long list of attempts to replace living with automated experimenters , from written instructions , to computers . |
| 21 | Announcements on all or parts of the effort are promised this week as soon as parties sign off . |
| 22 | The biggest daily peak comes around 5.00 pm , as homes switch on before industry switches off : There has been little research on the way consumers would respond to the various kinds of incentive that could be built into the electricity price structure . |
| 23 | I still believe that three-day cricket can make certain players lazy , as opportunities come round thick and fast and failures are overtaken very quickly by the next match . |
| 24 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 25 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 26 | Straggling columns of federal infantrymen and their local militia allies advanced unopposed on the suburbs of Visegrad as shells rained down on Muslim positions . |
| 27 | As demands crowd in on you it becomes increasingly difficult to keep things in perspective . |
| 28 | She changed the subject , just as Piers sat back down , favouring Simone with a broad smile and herself with nothing at all . |
| 29 | Broadly speaking , three-quarters of those who come to Europe as refugees stay on , half with permission , half without . |
| 30 | ‘ Save water ’ plea as springs dry up |