Example sentences of "but as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have chosen the South Face , for we fear the Normal Route will no longer do for our insatiable appetites , but as we gain the foot of the face the snow worsens desperately and Enrique if obliged to wade through powder to a dubious perch on the lip of the bergschrund . |
| 2 | But as we rise and dress , as we leave the house to walk to the shop and buy a paper , it ebbs away , this false spring . |
| 3 | Attention to surveillance and the rational use of primary and secondary resources are still needed , but as we try to add ‘ quality to quantity ’ we may need to look to social science as well as to epidemiology . |
| 4 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 5 | ' ( But as we know , a great many Christians caught up in talking about social activism of various kinds do not believe in the Devil . ) |
| 6 | But as we know in advance , the two sisters are in communication by letter , and have established a joint policy of provocation . |
| 7 | But as we know from British history one of the understated reasons why erm there was a lot of hostility to home rule for Ireland in Britain was because of the fear of the creation of a hostile state er erm off , off Britain 's shore . |
| 8 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 9 | But as we contemplate these bitter internecine struggles we should not be too unsympathetic or complacent . |
| 10 | The future will not be as God/dess or fate decrees , but as we design it . |
| 11 | I know there are lots of wonderful small Italian restaurants dotted around London but as we intend to invite around 100 guests , we are having trouble finding a venue large enough . |
| 12 | He saw the Challenge materials as particularly useful for the individual resource-based projects which first-year children were encouraged to develop over several weeks in the summer term : Up to half term they really are very much guided as to the work they do , but as we get to know them better , and as teachers become more confident about letting them maybe work on longer pieces … and go out and get resources themselves , they can go towards more pupil-centred learning . |
| 13 | Most of us would like to think of growing old gracefully , enjoying the years of retirement , surrounded by family and friends … but as we get older , it becomes more and more difficult to get about and meet others . |
| 14 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |
| 15 | We can never achieve a perfect life by our own efforts , but as we rest in God 's love , seek God 's will , and identify with God 's life , then we are holy as he is holy . |
| 16 | On a beat , that is with the sheet pulled in tightly but as we turn on to a ridge you 'll see that we have to ease the sheet out so that the sail stays at the same angle for the wind . |
| 17 | But as we go back to much earlier periods , the signal systems are complex in different ways again . |
| 18 | But as we 've just done Ampeg , it 's either SWR gear or the Boogie 400+ stack — all pretty formidable stuff . ’ |
| 19 | But as we 've seen , not being linguistic does n't make Pooh 's bees any less useful as a sign . |
| 20 | These are wishes of the ego , and they 're gratified in the illusion of religion , but as we 've also seen , Freud erm , notices even though he does n't comment , that the illusion of religion is pro-social , in the sense that it maintains social order , systems and morality , and so on . |
| 21 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 22 | but as we stress this is a subsidiary argument that we point |
| 23 | Younger skins tend to shed dead skin cells without help , but as we age , the reproduction processes under the skin slow down . |
| 24 | This can be a struggle and it may take a while , but as we see all the time among those around us , identity can be achieved , and with tremendous satisfaction and eventual rewards . |
| 25 | But as we move into the gentler , more thoughtful 1990s , Britain 's big retailers — and the people who invest money in them — should bear three things in mind . |
| 26 | Many of these terms make sense in a closely defined context , but as we move , with them , towards general sociological statements , they become less and less satisfactory . |
| 27 | There are some targets which we never expect to achieve but as we move towards them they give us a sense of direction . |
| 28 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 29 | But as we look forward into Europe post 1993 we have industries in this city that will be vulnerable . |
| 30 | But as we have seen , he was extremely careful to avoid public association with the generally unpopular pogrom-type anti-Semitic outrages . |