Example sentences of "as [conj] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer :
2 It now looks as if the first commercial versions will be brought to market soon after CD-I is made generally available worldwide .
3 The thir it sounds as if the sixth should be bigger does n't it cos it 's got a six in it .
4 Midnight 's head drooped as if the last of his energy had deserted him , and when he spoke his voice was muffled : ‘ You forget I am a slave .
5 ‘ It 's as if the last time you saw me was yesterday . ’
6 Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined .
7 It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her .
8 When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps .
9 The snow was still falling outside , but raggedy fashion , as if the last flakes in stock were being sold off cheaply .
10 He was elected as but the sixth member of the exclusive Accademia dei Lincei ( that is , the Academy of the Lynx-eyed ) .
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