Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given their reputation in the 1970s , who would have thought that British car workers would match their counterparts in Japan or Germany as they do now , not only for productivity , but for quality as well ? |
| 2 | [ the commission ] did not … attempt to demarcate a boundary but indicated a border strip some twenty to forty miles [ 30–60 km ] in width , somewhere inside which the frontier line was understood to lie , the two governments being left to settle the question by agreement or force as they pleased . |
| 3 | Trolls can sometimes be persuaded to join Orcs or Goblins as they march to battle , although it is doubtful if they really understand what is going on . |
| 4 | Privacy or privacy as they seem to say these days , do n't they , sometimes ? |
| 5 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 6 | For example , besides assuming Cézanne 's high viewpoint , Picasso now often continues the outlines of walls or buildings at slightly different levels or angles as they appear at intervals behind the objects in the foreground . |
| 7 | The retailer may be cushioned from cut-throat competition from supermarkets but at the cost of their freedom to sell or price as they wish : like small subcontractors , being tied to a dominant parent company may be the cost of insuring against business failure . |
| 8 | Waterlilies should never be positioned near waterfalls or fountains as they prefer fairly static water . |
| 9 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The Scots are in no mood to have foreigners , or Sassenachs as they call us , interfering in their affairs , but by all means keep yourself conversant with what is happening . |
| 11 | Their reaction turns from pleasure to indifference or hostility as they realise what impending fatherhood actually involves . |
| 12 | For the walk-in horses are better pack animals than llamas as they carry much more and cost about the same , but horses can not reach all the base camps . |
| 13 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 14 | If such an interpretation were accepted , such stamps can be viewed as more than decoration as they become symbols conveying information about family . |
| 15 | Many families would eat nothing that day as they waited in hope for Ramlal to return . |
| 16 | ‘ It will be more like a home game for us than France as they have only sold about 20,000 tickets , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 18 | Well , the resistance of course is caused by the fact that electrons as they move around in , in , in metals , bounce off things and this erm causes their , their flow to be impeded . |
| 19 | Central heating pipes expand as they heat up and contract as they cool down , and this can cause irritating ticking or creaking noises . |
| 20 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 21 | Later that year a combined army of men led by Sigmar and Dwarfs led by King Kurgan met and defeated a huge horde of Goblins and Orcs as they attempted to cross the Worlds Edge Mountains at the Black Fire Pass . |
| 22 | But already the ships in the Morpork docks — laden with grain , cotton and timber , and coated with tar — were blazing merrily and , their moorings burnt to ashes , were breasting the river Ankh on the ebb tide , igniting riverside palaces and bowers as they drifted like drowning fireflies towards the sea . |
| 23 | The analysis of markets and products as they relate to the customer is a prime marketing task . |
| 24 | In many ways , the Lebanon of 1892 is still identifiable to us , for the various religious communities — the minority tribes — still live in the same villages and cities as they did then . |
| 25 | ‘ You are very much mistaken , ’ he muttered , looking beyond them and keeping a close eye on his sister and Mitch as they rode along laughing and talking . |
| 26 | ( iii ) To ensure that the government machine responds and adapts itself to new policies and programmes as they emerge , within the broad framework of the main departmental fields of responsibility . |
| 27 | In those days Womblemania stalked these islands , and so a large audience had gathered to witness Uncle Bulgaria and Co as they strutted their stuff . |
| 28 | The weary sighs from friends and associates as they replace the telephone receiver after yet another call from the maestro have become somewhat more pronounced . |
| 29 | • Legislation — rulings and policies as they affect both suppliers and consumers |
| 30 | Another boost will come from the availability of the Forte client-server development environment from Oakland , California-based Forte Software Inc , which is currently in beta test , and which enables developers to build an application as a whole , dividing it up later between clients and servers as they wish . |