Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 2 | As Lisa Jardine has recently reminded us , in the obsession with dress and what it signified socially , we witness contemporary tensions and struggles between classes , between residual and emergent cultures , between the mercantile order and what it was actually ( or seemed to be ) replacing , between rank and wealth , between innate and fiscal value ( Still Harping , 141 — 2 , 1 50 ) . |
| 3 | Kington comes across as a natural traveller , just as Colin Thubron did in the Silk Road programme in David Wallace 's series . |
| 4 | As Colin Lacey says : |
| 5 | However , as Colin Gray indicated , they are either within striking distance of current LASMO operations — where it would be relatively straightforward and economical to tie in a smaller discovery to an existing field — or otherwise they offer such exciting prospects as possibly to warrant major investment . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |
| 7 | It is worth emphasizing that , as Colin Renfrew noted in the context of early metallurgy in the Balkans , technology itself has not invariably been developed to serve material ends . |
| 8 | As Colin MacCabe has pointed out , in the hierarchy of discourses in the classic realist text , the visual is privileged . |
| 9 | Simon Harrop comes into midfield as Colin Whettam reverts to the bench . |
| 10 | It was as Liu Chang had said . |
| 11 | He and proud mum Christine will be waiting with bated breath as Will Carling announces the winners at a special ceremony in the Howard Hotel . |
| 12 | As Yeremi Valence sat in the iron chair an hour later , he heard distantly : |
| 13 | Maybe , even as Alexandra Maitland wiped her eyes on a tissue and sniffed unalluringly in the kitchen of her London flat , Matthew Prescott was facing his destiny across a Somerset dinner table , and liking what he saw . |
| 14 | This is certainly true of JS stores as Sheila Farmer knows . |
| 15 | More tarmac and concrete has left fewer green fields for water to drain into underground reserves , as Sheila Brocklebank reports . |
| 16 | A woman as socially assured as Alison Kraemer does n't get her knickers in a twist just because an acquaintance , however unsuitably married , asks her how she enjoyed the concert . |
| 17 | One that is often unrealistically pictured by adults as Alison Yarrington reports |
| 18 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 19 | AS SUPER-BULL SANDERS BOOSTS ADVANCED MICRO |
| 20 | The idea that Israel is the final and true refuge of all Jews — ‘ the first and last line of defence of the Jewish people ’ , as Szymon Datner called it — is as credible to Israelis today as it was in 1948 . |
| 21 | It 's quite clear , as Little Richard hitches his pants and ecstatically rolls his eyes in ‘ Do n't Knock The Rock ’ , that rock 'n' roll represented an explosion of black consciousness into mainstream white American culture . |
| 22 | As Little Rock cashes in , other Arkansas towns are following suit . |
| 23 | As Little Billy went from window to window , the Minpins followed him , clustering round and smiling at his exclamations of wonder . |
| 24 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 25 | On top of all this , world recession meant that industry used less gold and silver and that jewellers ' customers stayed away , as Gerald Ratner learned . |
| 26 | As Gerald Thomas told me : ‘ Our success appeared to be based on the demise of the British music hall , the slightly lavatorial humour that appealed to father and son alike — and to the fact that people knew what they were getting , like Heinz baked beans or Lux toilet soap . ’ |
| 27 | He could be outrageous in the most genteel Italian eaterie , as Gerald Thomas remembered for me . |
| 28 | They stood listening at the door as Gerald Hussey made a short speech of welcome ; then there were further exchanges in low voices which Sara could not make out . |
| 29 | However , catalysts have been proved to reduce air pollution by 75 per cent at any speed , and consequently the car industry has had to back down as EEC legislation has pushed for their adoption in member states . |
| 30 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |