Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As everyone knows these first alarms were phoney .
2 The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing .
3 Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction .
4 It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years .
5 As long as nobody gets hurt , we can get through life tolerably well this way .
6 But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly .
7 ‘ Who knows , Diana may well want to move on to bigger and faster racing cars as she gets better and more confident . ’
8 I mean there is that biography as soon as she gets disguised .
9 A woman does , as she gets older , achieve a certain status in the joint family , particularly if she has had sons .
10 There may be more work as she gets older , she says : ‘ I 'd like to do the kind of roles Anjelica Huston can do .
11 Out on the pathway leading to the gate he took her arm , saying , ‘ She gets dafter as she gets older , ’ but there was such warmth in his tone that his words could have been translated as , ‘ Is n't she marvellous ! ’
12 She might grow out of them as she gets older .
13 In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter .
14 Millie , Sapphire 's murderer , clearly misses male sexual attention , fantasising as she does that her absent husband 's return is imminent .
15 ‘ As long as she goes first .
16 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home .
17 When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed .
18 Even more forceful with words is Klose , a famous Ortrud heard here in her absolute prime as she sweeps all before her in Act 2 .
19 I persuaded our Chairman , Hilary Weedon , to come with me as she speaks fluent German and I am keen that this contact shall continue into younger generations .
20 In this piece she starts very near , so near she makes us want to vomit at the sight of the caterpillar , and then she slowly moves away , gaining emotional balance as she gains physical distance .
21 Erm it , and as they sa , and as she says this tends to be er a description of a gypsy camps campsite which looks at the external surroundings of the caravans , but it does n't actually look inside the caravan .
22 She weeps as she says these words about him :
23 Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness .
24 And she still runs in manic circles round her ADULT children , which many professionals of different disciplines and styles here find totally bizarre as she approaches seventy !
25 He was very like Hannah in his attitude and manner — very genteel — and I 've noticed that as she grows older she looks more and more like him .
26 What do you think is the most important aspect of herself a woman should preserve as she grows older ?
27 However as she grows older , and perhaps re-enters the labour market , domestic tasks are shared more equitably .
28 BELVILLE : Only I know that sparkling lustre , or I should have some fear for my Pamela as she grows older .
29 This will help Ruth , as she grows older , to understand . ’
30 As long as she comes first to make sure
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