Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] in [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shook her head ; then jerked it backwards , indicating the scullery , as she added in a much lower tone , ‘ They 're not really my aunt and uncle . |
| 2 | But before he could banish the memory of the expression on Marjorie 's face as she stood in the thinly sunlit kitchen , one thought slid through to settle painfully into his consciousness . |
| 3 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 4 | They were shaped within a world dominated by respectable values , but even when the patterns approximated ( as they did in the eventually declining birthrate ) they did so for reasons which had a different rationale in each class . |
| 5 | In so far as Charles III 's reforms encouraged local prosperity — as they did in the newly created Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires — they gave the societies of Latin America a more lively sense of the inconveniences of the Spanish connexion . |
| 6 | It does , however , provide a useful introductory focus on Hilton 's breadth of appeal , and also on his understanding of the terms " active " and " contemplative " as they appear in the more sophisticated books of The Scale . |
| 7 | The music comes to vivid life under Jarvi 's direction , as it does in the sometimes surprising but always purposeful fluctuations of tempo in the first movement . |
| 8 | As Peter Medawar pointed out many years ago in his classic essay Is the scientific paper a fraud ? these essential elements in how research is done get refined out from the account as it appears in the finally published papers or scientific reviews , just as they have largely , though not entirely , been filtered from the discussion of Aplysia and LTP in the last chapter . |
| 9 | He watched his friend watching Isabel and his hazel eyes slowly widened as he took in the tightly drawn stillness in the other man 's body , the white-knuckled fist still clenched against the wall . |
| 10 | And so they began , Cranston occasionally pausing for refreshment as he recited in an almost sing-song voice what they knew about Springall 's death , and then Brampton 's , Vechey 's and Allingham 's . |
| 11 | But when he spoke , he had his audience hanging on his every word as he described in the most modest terms , what was clearly an arduous adventure , expertly carried out . |
| 12 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |