Example sentences of "as [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 2 | as if summoned by the music , a pang assaulted her heart . |
| 3 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 4 | However the gem is surely the Third Ballade with the opening pages played as if improvised on the spot , the figuration commencing at 3′34″ foaming and cascading with a freedom and liberality unknown to most players . |
| 5 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 6 | As his hand closed on the rubber border , the man appeared to steady , staring fixedly as if fascinated by the spectacle . |
| 7 | The fingers were clamped solid as if sewn into the material . |
| 8 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 9 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 10 | He was black , too , as if coated with a layer of paint . |
| 11 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 12 | Her face looked rough-hewn , as if carved from a cliff . |
| 13 | For long moments Frankie was held as if transfixed by the man 's gaze . |
| 14 | as if moved by a key , her own head turned until she confronted him . |
| 15 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 16 | At last he understood , and fell into a chair , as if hit on the head . |
| 17 | St John jumped as if hit between the shoulders , then turned slowly and stiffly to face the speaker . |
| 18 | He said this as if amused by the thought . |
| 19 | And at its base , as if tossed to the ground from one of the tower 's high windows , was a highly stylised rose . |
| 20 | as if slapped across the face , she opened her eyes and looked up as her monster was tugged off its feet by invisible forces . |
| 21 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 22 | Disney 's contribution to the built environment has superimposed North American regional vernacular architecture of the 19th and early 20th century on the Ile de France : a Pacific North West national park lodge , a South West pueblo , a Far West cowboy town , an East Coast seaside club , a South East Victorian resort , and a piece of 1930s Manhattan — albeit somewhat distorted , as if seen through the lens of a Hollywood movie camera . |
| 23 | Landscapes are treated unusually , in frescoes and also in sealstones , as if seen from the air or through a fish-eye lens . |
| 24 | ‘ Gettogeddon ’ is one of the biggest noises you ever heard : this is house as if made by an orchestra , not a sampler . |
| 25 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 26 | The skin of his face hung on its framework like the hides of the penthouse , and weariness and anger and pain scored his brow as if done by a hatchet . |
| 27 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 28 | The jaws appear as if recessed within the mouth . |
| 29 | At the back , as if distanced to the utmost from the woman who ab initio had publicly sought to claim him as escort , friend , and guide , sat Phil Aldrich , slowly reading the evening 's edition of The Oxford Mail . |
| 30 | She sat up in the bed , dumbstruck , her face aglow as if lit from the inside . |