Example sentences of "as i [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed .
2 I 'm speaking here of the period of conventional warfare by the way , this is not the case with nuclear war as I shall show in a later lecture .
3 I found cranking the boat over on its side did not help to turn it ( in the opposite direction ) as much as I would expect in a sea kayak .
4 For these technical reasons , the Audio Visual machine is much more advanced , and would not have to upgraded within a relatively short time , as I would fear with the 3M machine .
5 As I would disagree with the notion that we are taking anything away from society , the notion of ‘ putting something back ’ may sound misplaced .
6 Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop .
7 Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire .
8 I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore .
9 Mm No that 's er making me jolly cross , not like myself I do n't do anything like , not as much as I used to do at the hall , I mean I used to do a lot as you know , but I , I know how much you have done , but nobody else knows
10 I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home …
11 Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows .
12 As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving .
13 Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft .
14 I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right
15 As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac .
16 She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater .
17 In fact , as far as I could judge from the old hearing system , the effect on Quigley was fairly stupendous .
18 ‘ No , Sir John , he did not , as I will explain in a while .
19 I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why .
20 Sal continued working as a waitress in a cafe on the Commercial Road , but Charlie knew she could n't wait to find someone willing to marry her — whatever physical shape he was in — just as long as I can sleep in a room of my own , she explained .
21 And I can confirm ( for the benefit of Glenn , I think it was ) that Howard Wilkinson is not a member either , as far as I can tell from the list .
22 The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds .
23 yes , as far as I can see with the other one 's
24 this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for .
25 At leat that 's as much as I can remember until the next morning when I woke up with my head in an invisible , sealed gold-fish bowl of pain .
26 There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service .
27 But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons .
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