Example sentences of "[conj] as we [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , we see little of their grandeur from the line itself as we cross the Wharncliffe Viaduct on the Great Western Railway , or the beautiful bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead , and plunge into the Classical-Renaissance portal of Box Tunnel ; or as we traverse the great Tring cutting on the old London and North Western . |
| 2 | It is obvious that as we descend the grouping and prolongational hierarchies the structure becomes more elaborate . |
| 3 | And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ? |
| 4 | It is salutary to note that as we start the 25th Anniversary year of the University the mean residence time of the 23 staff members of the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences , including the three staff appointed in the last decade , is now 18 years . |
| 5 | well the reason that we 've changed the name on those two stores is that any experiments we want to conduct have got to be conducted outside the normal M F I promotional platform and as we use the national press extensively the only way to do that is to change the name . |
| 6 | and as we take the vote on Mr 's er resolution . |
| 7 | However , most of us are afraid , or merely ashamed of our Shadow side — so it remains in the dark , and as we shine the light more brightly on our conscious self , the shadows deepen . |
| 8 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 9 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 10 | And as we quit the singer 's house , I remember the words that Bonnie Raitt said to John Lee when they were on stage earlier this year in nearby Sweetwater . |
| 11 | As we sit watching the sparks going up , and as we inhale the fragrant smoke , we are inclined to become philosophical or to sing nostalgic songs … |
| 12 | Most experiments , however , have been performed on pigeons , and as we consider the mechanism of true navigation we must concentrate on this one species . |
| 13 | And as we approach the Occultation we must take extra care . ’ |
| 14 | Well , this morning 's satellite picture shows clearly yesterday 's nasty weather out there in the North Sea and as we run the sequence through the day you can see a lot of showers coming towards Scotland and there 's some more threatening cloud coming across southern parts of England and Ireland . |
| 15 | We have chosen the South Face , for we fear the Normal Route will no longer do for our insatiable appetites , but as we gain the foot of the face the snow worsens desperately and Enrique if obliged to wade through powder to a dubious perch on the lip of the bergschrund . |
| 16 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |
| 17 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 18 | But as we descend the evolutionary scale , and the human paradigm is more distantly evoked in the diffusive movements of fish , birds , and insects , we will be uncertain what to say . |
| 19 | But as we approach the age of youth reason appears . |
| 20 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |