Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flew back through imagination to the festival at Shadoxhurst , to the dancers , the nonsense words they often chanted as they went through their formations . |
| 2 | After teaming up with fellow musicians in the early Seventies , he formed Alaap , performing at Asian shows and weddings , a practice they still do as well as supporting the likes of Peter Gabriel and UB40 at international music festivals . |
| 3 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 4 | ‘ As the midwife came into the room , I had a strong contraction which really felt as though I was in labour . |
| 5 | Doreen was a girl who always sounded as though her nasal passages were obstructed or her throat sore . |
| 6 | There had to be freedom of association — that is , freedom to form political parties , and freedom to form the kind of associations we now know as pressure groups , whose purpose is to bring to bear on parties and on governments the combined pressure of the interests they represent . |
| 7 | Lowe quickly made the telling point that whenever he saw film or photographs of the All Blacks they always looked as grim and serious . |
| 8 | On 6 May he suddenly resigned as Chancellor ( whilst remaining as SPD chairman ) . |
| 9 | At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there . |
| 10 | They despised the rest of the school population who passively did as they were told and called these the ‘ ear'oles ’ . |
| 11 | The early death of a sibling is an event which Dally cites as being common in the histories of anorexics , and a year or so later my baby sister died of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 12 | Yet in his Edward Thomas , R.P. Eckert argues that the young Edward had explored the Surrey and Wiltshire countryside in solitude with a fantasy companion called Philip who later reappeared as ‘ The Other Man ’ in In Pursuit of Spring and , even more noticeably , in Thomas 's early poem The Other . |
| 13 | A similar situation in some respects developed over the office of fiscal of the regality court of Lennox , or Mugdock , an appointment which was held by William Weir , the town clerk of the burgh of Rutherglen , a gentleman who also officiated as commissary of Hamilton and Campsie . |
| 14 | At all events , it enables her to explore the danger that shoots through many childhoods : the fear of losing mother or father , the conflict we often endure as we hear their exasperated voices arguing above our heads or while we are in bed . |
| 15 | We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . ) |
| 16 | From his slight paunch he also looked as though he enjoyed his own cuisine . |
| 17 | THE twentieth-century equivalent of the fishing knitter George Trowark ( see left ) could well be management consultant Jeremy Young who also knits as he travels , writes Vinny Lee . |
| 18 | John Sayers who recently retired as divisional manager of Decommissioning & Radwaste 's ( D&R ) Radwaste Operations & Handling Division is pictured here with his ‘ surprise ’ retirement gift of a model made by D&R 's Remote Handling & Robotics Department . |
| 19 | Mancini may be guilty of garbling the story here , since the woman who later emerged as Edward 's betrothed was Eleanor Butler ( nee Talbot ) , the widow of Thomas Butler of Sudeley . |
| 20 | Mancini may be guilty of garbling the story here , since the woman who later emerged as Edward 's betrothed was Eleanor Butler ( nee Talbot ) , the widow of Thomas Butler of Sudeley . |
| 21 | How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time . |
| 22 | The dog that accompanied the eleventh legion that was to conquer the area we now know as Rottweil in AD 74 would not be recognizable as the breed we know today . |
| 23 | At that time the area we now know as Scotland was situated near the present equator and much of the area was covered by the sea which explains the exotic nature of the finds . |
| 24 | One can not overestimate the importance of Gould 's identifications in establishing foundations for Darwin 's subsequent theories , as well as the part they initially played as catalyst . |
| 25 | Such a mixture we now know as potpourri , from the French pourrir , to rot , not a very accurate name , since the ingredients are preserved rather than allowed to decay . |
| 26 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 27 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 28 | And were n't there plenty of men who still thought as Johnny did , even though the year was 1992 ? |
| 29 | All her agitation of the summer she suddenly saw as moving towards this end — she had known , without knowing it , of this tragedy , she had been what her old mistress had called ‘ pre-sentimental ’ . |
| 30 | Nowadays there 's an enormous amount of information about us kept in computers , and there are laws which certainly sound as though they should stop it falling into unauthorized hands . |