Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 2 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles . |
| 3 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 4 | However , legal action was far from 26-year-old Shaunagh 's mind yesterday as she sipped a lager and kept the Maltsters Arms running smoothly . |
| 5 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 6 | And when the grandson left school , ‘ I worked in my grandfather 's boat just as he had worked in his grandfather 's … |
| 7 | A SOBBING mother cursed her daughter 's killer yesterday as she collapsed at the graveside of pop fan Helen Gorrie . |
| 8 | It consists primarily of : concentrating the construction of turbo-alternators in the new Alsthom-Atlantique group , with a production capacity of about 10000 MW per year ; concentrating all industrial resources for the fabrication of the boilers in Framatome , with a production capacity of eight units a year ; the CEA has also bought out Westinghouse 's share in Framatome 's equity so as to have complete control of the further development of the technology , the licence for which expired in 1982 . |
| 9 | Theodora felt the vanity of attempting to propose some measure of common sense on Gilbert 's waywardness even as she spoke . |
| 10 | It is possible to dissect open the animal 's body so as to expose the abdominal ganglion and its cells , or even to completely isolate the ganglion and the nerves connecting it to pieces of attached skin and gill . |
| 11 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 12 | Often they will fly onto their rival 's court just as he is mating , and disrupt the copulation . |
| 13 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 14 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |
| 15 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 16 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , I find Heneson 's presentation virtually as abusive , trivialising the AIDS crisis while evidencing a serious lack of good taste . |
| 18 | This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news . |
| 19 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |
| 20 | Then they 'll be put on show in what we call habitat displays ' so that all the people of America who wo n't ever come here will be able to see them iii our nation 's capital just as they once lived in these jungles . |
| 21 | Erm he the same children 's address here as he did in Salisbury Park . |
| 22 | She heard Rodo 's voice again as they reached the top . |
| 23 | Her school pals sang Morning Has Broken , The Colours Of The Day and Once In Royal David 's City just as she asked . |
| 24 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 25 | In 1938 , she asked him where Neville Chamberlain should stand to deliver a speech on her lawn the following week , and she captured Churchill 's tone perfectly as she recalled his advice : ‘ With the shun in hish eyes and the wind in hish teeth . ’ |
| 26 | Malcolm Marshall was named as Hampshire 's vice-captain yesterday as their season got underway with a friendly against Holland . |
| 27 | But Jezrael launched herself , rolling , this time her feet slamming into Zuleika 's middle just as Zuleika wildly stabbed the button on her stunner . |
| 28 | The purpose of the judicial review was to dispose of the district judge 's order so as to permit the substitution by the reviewing court of a different order , still directed to the way in which the matter should proceed . |
| 29 | He leaned forward and patted Chuck 's arm encouragingly as the suit brought the malabar ponies to a halt outside Cholon 's biggest covered market . |
| 30 | She entered Sister 's office just as she was giving a final briefing to Staff Nurse Target , who had also worked a split shift . |