Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coincidentally , the UK Government 's Department of Health launches a ‘ Help us to help you ’ campaign , wherein sick people are advised how not to waste the limited funds available for their treatment ( ‘ … remember to cancel appointments if they can not be kept … ’ ) and reminded by the Secretary of State for Health that ‘ Our primary care system is also the source of considerable envy abroad ’ , as I was reminded again during a recent trip to Russia . |
| 2 | Which means you 'll be able to relax as you 're whisked away at speeds of up to 90 mph. making your journey a good deal quicker . |
| 3 | Tony called after her as she was dragged away by Damian . |
| 4 | We had a remarkable woman for a nurse or " Mother 's help " as she was called even in those days , because Mother liked bringing up her own children and was always around , with the nursery the centre of the house , and not tucked away upstairs . |
| 5 | Jenna looked back over her shoulder a little anxiously as she was led firmly to the door . |
| 6 | Sams showed little emotion as she was led away by court ushers . |
| 7 | Sams showed little emotion as she was led away by court ushers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings . |
| 10 | Here cycle tracks may be taken from road space , but as they are delimited only by markings they are available for cars to pull into when they need to pass oncoming traffic . |
| 11 | These young gannets , or " gugas " [ the fat ones ] as they are called affectionately by the Gaelic-speaking islanders , were plucked and salted on the spot , then taken home to be stored as food . |
| 12 | The most easily dyed materials are wool and silk ; cotton and linen are difficult as they are made primarily of cellulose , being obtained from plants , rather than animal protein , and are better reserved for the time when experience has been obtained with dyeing wool . |
| 13 | In large leks the satellites have little chance of mating as they are driven away by the residents . |
| 14 | As they are parked outside in their cars , I do neither : I find it quite irritating to have my Sundays plotted . |
| 15 | I am merely trying to describe aspects of life as they are experienced subjectively by others . |
| 16 | Grunte and his companion were ushered into a lift , and , as the door closed mercifully upon them , the strains of ‘ Eskimo Nell ’ could be heard as they were borne aloft by the soft hum of machinery . |
| 17 | However , the Doctor was happy as they were brought directly to the industrial centre of the world . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't over ‘ till it 's over , ’ Defries had whispered to Bernice as they were jostled together in the middle of a crowd of lurching androids . |
| 19 | And we lack provisions that allows for a presidency in the absence of a minister is a good one as long as it is monitored closely by district council . |
| 20 | As it is moved away from the centre of energy towards the edge of the rectangle , the drawing will appear smaller and heavier while the significance of its content will become subordinate to its overall shape . |
| 21 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 22 | The nuclear family is not only smaller , as it is based essentially on the marriage bond and children , but it encourages privatisation . |
| 23 | The Reiterhof is a large hotel with plenty of facilities , and is well suited for walkers as it is located close to the mountain cable car . |
| 24 | K. islandica could have been affected by competition and loss of habitat , as it is confined today to very open , mildly basic wet gravel flushes and , more rarely , fine-grained screes on Skye and Mull . |
| 25 | as it is wiped now in any case : |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't be so modest , Archie , ’ said Robins , adding for my benefit , ‘ The colonel is responsible for all manner of things — the daily radio link — ‘ the sked ’ as it 's known all over the Pacific-crime and punishment , what happens if the electricity breaks down . ’ |
| 27 | Through the early 1960s , it refused to join a common front of uranium export suppliers as long as it was treated differently by Canada from the United States and United Kingdom over sales of uranium . |
| 28 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 29 | He remembered the heat of the sun on his back , and the way the cold water cleaved at the touch of the canoe , as it was propelled forward in search of prey by the hunters . |
| 30 | Right I mean these are area 's in in this entertainments centre as it was called earlier on the entertainment being theatre and the gallery erm that may be utilised more i.e. jazz bands in the downstairs bar erm any other ideas I mean get people into the building then you 'll sell tickets to keep the place running . |