Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a firm expands , the need for sophisticated financial control , possibly in the hands of one individual , will become necessary . |
| 2 | On the other hand , as a culture becomes richer and more complex , involving many more artistic techniques developed to a high degree of specialization , the social distance of many practices becomes much greater , and there is a virtually inevitable if always complex set of divisions between participants and spectators in the various arts . |
| 3 | This year many followers of Hardy will no doubt have been tempted , as a tribute linked with the 150th anniversary of the novelist 's birth , to visit his cottage at Higher Bockhampton in Dorset . |
| 4 | Such a transitory career as a rabbi suggests to me a new saying — ‘ sick humorists transit ingloriously ’ . |
| 5 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 6 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 7 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 8 | The soil fauna may also be developing , as a topsoil accumulates . |
| 9 | The company 's interest in content is likely to emerge slowly , rationalised at first as a willingness to make suggestions in the event a product of its new venture , Digital Domain , contains salacious material . |
| 10 | His Partagas perfecto was champed between his inner tube lips , a diamond as big as a buttercup sparkled on the starched front of his dress shirt , a long white silk scarf was casually looped around his lack of a neck . |
| 11 | Johnson , as a southerner know that in spite of winning 90% of the black vote in 1964 , he would be minutely scrutinized by civil rights leaders for any sign of hesitation in this area . |
| 12 | Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s . |
| 13 | As soon as a girl reaches puberty , which is celebrated as a life cycle rite , she must be manned off outside the family and its clan group . |
| 14 | As soon as a character lays a hand on this item , the skeletal Cleric grips it more tightly . |
| 15 | As soon as a character walks through the green and yellow arch from area 61 , he finds himself in this vast stagnant bog . |
| 16 | As a character leaves the Tower , he must make an WP test . |
| 17 | As soon as a character moves through the arch from area 60 , he finds himself in a meadow of what looks like thick , lush , flesh-coloured grass . |
| 18 | As a skyline links individual mountain peaks , so Greenbank brings together 45 classic routes from the Lake District , Scotland and Wales . |
| 19 | I have used the cinema as a weapon , as a medium to express my views ’ . |
| 20 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 21 | Men are the product of their past thoughts and deeds , according to the working of the law of karma , the harvest of deeds ; as a man sows so shall he reap , a principle accepted by St Paul in Galatians , a nexus of cause and effect . |
| 22 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 23 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 24 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 25 | There is a slurp in the silence , as a man digs with a hand-plough . |
| 26 | If a first baiter knew his job , as soon as a man had ploughed a stetch he 'd drop his stick across the furrows . |
| 27 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 28 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't say a word ! ’ cried a terrible voice , as a man jumped up from among the graves and caught hold of me . |
| 30 | As a government has to win majority support , the electorate have recurrent opportunities to change the nature of the contract between themselves and the state . |