Example sentences of "[conj] as our [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the first thing of people coming in and bastardising your work , I think to then actually sell that as our work — it 's not only immoral against us , but I think it 's conning members of the public too . ’
2 Eternal God , we rejoice in your promise that as our day is , so shall our strength be ; and we ask for your help for all who are old and wearied with the burden of life .
3 ‘ To new beginnings , ’ I echoed , and as our cups touched , we both smiled .
4 And as our Mick has often said , there 's more to Master Joe than meets the eye . ’
5 This is the essential meaning of the old dogma which described him as God incarnate and as our Saviour and Redeemer .
6 To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all .
7 Kolbe died for his friend and Christ died for us — as an example for us to follow , as a pioneer who goes before us , as one who identifies with us , as our reconciler , as our sacrifice , and as our substitute .
8 And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago .
9 Soon after this there arrived from Toronto a short ruddy-faced Welshman , Ernest Morgan , as Chief Producer , and as our programme production increased more staff was added , including the versatile and ever helpful announcer Dick Halhed , the tall and sharp-featured Stan ( or David ) Catton , and the suavely serious Marce Munro .
10 We 've taken a much more active role in the European Federation that we belong to , the Building and Woodworkers ' Federation and as our conference will know , or some colleagues in congress will know we 've actually had
11 These had gone down rather well , and as our Baroque painting specialist was leaving at the same time as Youngman , voices were raised to say here was perhaps both the lecturer and the administrator we were looking for .
12 It was felt essential to continue the Course at a National level and be available to students from a distance and as our training strength is already at full stretch it would not be possible at present to consider a weekly training course , which had been mooted to run alongside .
13 And as our table shows , some of them have turned out to be very good performers indeed .
14 Finally , as liver failure was predominant in at least 16 of the 29 patients dying within six weeks and as our score gives an objective information about the outcome of the patient ( unlike the classicacl Child-Pugh classification which is subjected to changes after improvement of the patient 's status ) cirrhotic patients with their first , potentially lethal , variceal bleeding should be early stratified as candidates or not for liver transplantation and the decision to proceed to transplantation should be considered in the high risk group defined by us .
15 ‘ We felt that they deserved sponsorship from the local community and as our business grows , we would like to share our success with an organisation whose aims we fully support .
16 Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in .
17 I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for .
18 But as our studies continue , more and more concealed breaks become apparent , such as the remarkable situation in the jurassic limestones of western Sicily , where several stages are packed away into thin solution pipes in what otherwise look like unbroken limestone sequences ( figure 3.1 ) .
19 I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully .
20 It is hard to take it all seriously When practising during daylight , but as our friends in Wales found , controlling a mobile body of men at night , without getting lost and remaining undetected , is not easy .
21 Gardening is good , but as our backs so readily tell us , large infrequent doses can hurt .
22 MORE and more women are turning to expensive cosmetic surgery to slow down the ageing clock — but as our pictures show , it is n't always a cut above less drastic beauty remedies .
23 ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house .
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