Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the court has a general power to include incidental , supplemental or consequential provisions as it thinks fit ( s11(7) ( d ) ) . |
| 2 | There are no English churches named after the old boy , or old boys as it happens . |
| 3 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 4 | What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really . |
| 5 | His papers illustrate that many living creatures and their parts grow in magnitude only , suffering no actual change in form or overall configuration as they become larger . |
| 6 | This was the serious business of becoming rich — a fantasy which involved descriptions of the clinic he would open with the proceeds , the disciples he would train , and the short burst of bad temper or glum despair as he checked his coupon and found he had n't won . |
| 7 | Angus– or Black Angus as he preferred to be called , eyed Cornelius with contempt . |
| 8 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 9 | Then the courts interpret such phrases so as to give themselves more or less control as they wish . |
| 10 | four or five times as I watch the skua tries and each time it fails . |
| 11 | It is therefore not surprising that otaku are fascinated with new technology such as virtual reality or digital compression as it connects to pornography . |
| 12 | Traditional Japanese cooking does not have three or four courses as we do , but rather has five distinctive types of dishes — raw , grilled , simmered , stewed or fried — which are presented in a customary order . |
| 13 | Each student entering the University is assigned to a Director of Studies who is a member of the teaching staff with special responsibility for providing information and guidance on choice of courses , and to help with academic or other problems as they arise . |
| 14 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 15 | I have tried to present a society where aggressive behaviour as we understand it — however loosely defined — is not much in evidence . |
| 16 | She wished him goodnight and he raised that shameful hat as she turned and walked away towards the theatre , rubbing her hand against her hip-bone like a soiled cloth against a scrubbing board . |
| 17 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 18 | We must allow , too , that this argument as it stands leaves our understanding untouched . |
| 19 | It takes aim , compensating for the way that light bends as it passes from water to air and squirts a jet of drops , knocking the insect from its foothold so that it falls into the water and can be eaten . |
| 20 | Only one of his birdie putts was more than 12 feet as he continued to pepper the pins . |
| 21 | Old friends who are Christians in moderation think that such talents as you have could be more effective in some other vocation . |
| 22 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 24 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
| 25 | Thus , on the facts of the instant case , goes the argument , the fact that the proceedings against the respondent were postponed until the proceedings against the Murphy brothers were concluded ( despite the fact that such postponement as we find was in practice almost inevitable ) amounts to a breach of Magna Carta chapter 29 . |
| 26 | The report has been with the department 's accountants for more than three weeks as they check its factual accuracy . |
| 27 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 28 | This weekend a hundred thousand spectators are expected to watch more than eighty balloons as they take to the skies . |
| 29 | ‘ We put as much energy into planning that one show as we did into the other 53 shows put together . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be ideal if we could find more than one corgi as we have two performances a day . ’ |