Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb base] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used pure watercolour at the beginning and although I loved its luminosity , I found that as I usually paint in short stabs rather than broad washes , the thinking time that pure watercolour demands was not ideal for me . |
| 2 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 3 | Or a dramatic switch in councillors themselves as you sometimes get in whole council elections . |
| 4 | For example ferruginous crusts , or ferricrete , are almost certainly fossil features as they probably form in wetter climates and are discussed in the next chapter . |
| 5 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 6 | Armed forces increasingly take on the role of internal policemen — as they often have in several countries . |
| 7 | Many government documents , passports , residence cards , even the road-signs , appeared in both French and Arabic — as they still do in General Gouraud 's strangely conceived republic to this day . |
| 8 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |