Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [pron] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bending spring is slid down inside the pipe for support as it is bent across the knee . |
| 2 | Erm , Chair , this is the Joint Staffing Watch for September ninety-three , and its mandatory on the County Council , that it 's presented to the committee , er , within a period of preparation as it is issued to the media . |
| 3 | The experience of faith as it is lived by another people , another culture ; the enjoyment of celebrating fiestas ( and that includes the liturgy and the party afterwards ) with the people ; the experience of living amongst a people who never give up the struggle whatever happens and so challenge my own pettiness ; the graciousness of so many of them and the great welcome they gave us . |
| 4 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | Since this chapter is concerned with describing what pluralism is , this is not the place to comment in detail upon the relative strengths and weaknesses of pluralism and the critiques of pluralism as it is debated in the American community power debate . |
| 6 | above , could also be used to translate the meaning of run as it is used in any or all of groups 2–4 . |
| 7 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 8 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 9 | He got up , but instead of doing as he was told , came a step nearer . |
| 10 | This can be reached only by an impartial examination of each piece of evidence as it is uncovered . |
| 11 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 12 | He was distressed when they asked about his wife 's fidelity , and in her turn Mrs T was accused of infidelity as she was interrogated separately from her husband . |
| 13 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 14 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 15 | According to founder and president Jim Ready , Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written . |
| 16 | According to founder and president Jim Ready , Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written . |
| 17 | Next second she gave a scream of rage as she was hooked by an eleven-year-old cousin , who then proceeded to whip the ball away down field . |
| 18 | Lévi-Strauss suggests that as a science anthropology should be attempting not to provide a definition of man as he is known experientially in our own society — an unscientific subjectivism — but should rather begin by ‘ dissolving ’ him . |
| 19 | I am merely trying to describe aspects of life as they are experienced subjectively by others . |
| 20 | As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London , ‘ Riff-Raff ’ , directed by Ken Loach ( he of ‘ Hidden Agenda ’ ) builds a portrait — sometimes gritty , often funny — of life as it is lived at the margins . |
| 21 | But if we are to relate the romantic picture of historical generalization to the hard facts of life as it was lived , we need examples , great and small , of cities at work . |
| 22 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 23 | The thing to remember is your last little note is that it seems to be that they 're accusing him of blasphemy as it was said . |
| 24 | She looked a picture of health as she was cuddled by her relieved mum Michelle and dad David . |
| 25 | The smell of the plates of food as they were borne past had been tantalising and caused pangs of hunger to strike Meredith 's stomach as though she had n't eaten anything for a week . |
| 26 | In this chapter I print the statements of attainment as they are defined in the final Statutory Orders , English in the National Curriculum , published by HMSO . |
| 27 | I accept that , at present , they are high — only slightly below unleaded petrol prices — but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , that is because the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of year as it is used for heating and high demand tends to push up prices . |
| 28 | An understanding of technology as it is applied in the design , development and management of consumer goods and services is developed . |
| 29 | You must not reprimand her for doing as she was told . ’ |
| 30 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |