Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are exciting days ahead as the two-year-old classic races loom in the next few months and we could have something hot for next season . ’ |
| 2 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 3 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 4 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 5 | The reasons , I would argue , are not just due to any innate biological features of females , but have social causes just as the ‘ craze ’ itself . |
| 6 | The Council is , then , here solemnly declaring that throughout the world local churches , or groups of linked churches , have the right and duty , not to be ruled from Rome , but to govern themselves with their own traditions and pastoral needs just as the decree implies the Oriental Churches should do . |
| 7 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 8 | For Sociology , Helen Roberts reported considerable changes both within the organisation of the discipline and within the structure of the profession , seeing these changes largely as the direct or indirect result of an increased level of awareness brought about through the women 's movement over the previous decade ( Roberts , 1981b ) . |
| 9 | Ace was worrying about these questions even as the suit 's claws were closing round the distorted cube , and lifting it to reveal indicator lights , a display screen , a keypad : a control panel . |
| 10 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |
| 12 | At last Lucenzo buttoned his coat , and she pulled on her woollen gloves just as the taxi came to a halt . |
| 13 | The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher . |
| 14 | On May 14 Robin Leigh-Pemberton , governor of the Bank of England , warned against lowering interest rates , since this " would add to inflationary pressures just as the [ economic ] upswing is beginning " ( although there was a further cut in the base rate , from 12 per cent to 11.5 per cent , on May 24 ) . |
| 15 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 16 | ‘ That guy just getting into a cab , ’ he said five minutes later as the chauffeur drove out of the car park . |
| 17 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 18 | Both the department head lists will hold the same pointers downward as the lecturers hold upwards , that is , all types of access between the two ‘ levels , are permitted . |
| 19 | Michael Jopling , standing just two feet away as the tale unwound , said that he knew the feeling . |
| 20 | Football , now , and the chairman of Swindon Town says he deeply regrets having to sell one of the club 's best players just as the race for promotion to the Premier League is hotting up . |
| 21 | This may be because of a scarcity of suitable sites , but the great number of individuals present makes it possible for unmated young birds to help their parents in the labour of digging holes just as the young Florida scrub jays help their parents rear new broods . |