Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill was out of all proportion to the event , of course , and serves only to reflect the overwhelmingly domesticated aspect of much British countryside , dominated as it is by cows and sheep , as well as some of what historian Keith Thomas has called ‘ our anti-urban bias ’ . |
| 2 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 3 | It is also clear that the transport sector , dominated as it is by private modes , represents the fastest growing source of airborne pollutants , including greenhouse gases . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not good for the Konica League to be dominated as it is by Southern teams . |
| 5 | Gordon Harris ( of Wragge & Co ) leads the seminar on Music in the Film and Television Industries when the current issues for independent producers , broadcasters and music companies will be addressed as they relate to copyright , clearances , liaison with PRS , MCPS , record companies and the musicians union . |
| 6 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
| 7 | Consultants can provide a source of expert advice for local groups , but the issue of who controls the process must be addressed as it was absolutely crucial for any community economic development . |
| 8 | Surrounded as we are by solutions of all kinds , each one supported by persuasive evidence of attested success , we can not but be tempted into the belief that somewhere among them there will be one which matches our particular teaching problem and which can therefore be slotted into our situation like a cassette or a computer programme . |
| 9 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 10 | The whole resort is very picturesque , surrounded as it is by the Kitzbuhler alps . |
| 11 | If there is such a place as an ideal situation , Donnington Brewery must surely be in it , surrounded as it is by beautiful scenery , an abundance of wild life and a remarkable air of peace and tranquillity . |
| 12 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |
| 13 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 14 | Surrounded as he was by the glamour of the acting world , he could pick and choose from the world 's most beautiful women — women like Marianne , with her lush body and provocative , slanting green eyes . |
| 15 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 16 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 17 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 18 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 19 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 20 | They can only act as he has taught them . |
| 21 | Only with Pilade did he act as she would wish a husband and father to act . |
| 22 | You 're freer , and can act as you please — like you travel freer without possessions . |
| 23 | Faced with the evidence that we have , any responsible Home Secretary would act as I have acted . |
| 24 | His clothes steaming as he bent to light a cigarette from a blazing splinter on the open hearth . |
| 25 | Both O'Flaherty and Sherington were severely wounded as they got into the warehouse , but with grim determination they staggered clear , leaving a few equally determined Germans in an inner room of the building . |
| 26 | The story of victims number 37,38 and 39 was : ‘ In an apparent ambush , a gang member , fourteen , is killed and two others are wounded as they stand at a bus stop . ’ |
| 27 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |
| 28 | Hitoshi Motoshima , the mayor of Nagasaki , was shot in the back and seriously wounded as he emerged from Nagasaki City Hall on Jan. 18 . |
| 29 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 30 | Already , as Luke raised her hand to his mouth , response was quivering to life deep down in the heart of her femininity , flickering and then leaping as she felt the sensual brush of his lips . |