Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Lennie ( 1980 ) points out , that does not mean that these cells respond more rapidly to visual stimuli than the other classes , since the latency of response to visual input is determined largely by events in the retina At low spatial frequencies they are linear but as the spatial frequency is increased non-linear properties emerge . |
| 2 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 3 | The sunlight is strong and as the water gets nearer the bright blue of the sky has less and less effect on the colours of the gravel bed and waving weeds until at the bottom of the picture you can see straight down into the clear water . |
| 4 | Second , it is possible that as the mass of the planet built up the volatiles were captured as gases from the planetary formation medium ( PFM ) by the gravitational field of the ( growing ) planet . |
| 5 | Intimacy is risky because as the other person discovers our weaknesses they could exploit them . |
| 6 | The percentage shareholding necessary to give control is problematical since as the degree of dispersal increases effective control can be exercised with a decreasing proportion of the votes , and certainly with considerably less than the 50 per cent required for a member or members to have the right to remove the board . |
| 7 | We will still have the ability to carry today 's weapons such as the the L seven five five cluster bomb unit , the thousand pound bomb erm and the C R V seven rocket and things like that but clearly as we move forward into the century it 's important that as the platform progresses then so does the aircraft . |
| 8 | It 's vital that as the economy improves we find ways to enable long term unemployed people to compete positively for jobs . |
| 9 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 10 | Even within a mobile industry the staff turnover of 95% in 4 years was high and as the office handled a steady influx of new faces , there were subtle changes in the chemistry of the staff . |
| 11 | It was inevitable that as the company expanded , so did the role of accountants and planners and Laura , however rueful , never once proposed that expansion should be blocked . |
| 12 | Until 1910 organized labour protest was subdued but as the industrial boom gathered pace , bringing the number of workers in mining and large-sale industry to over three million by 1914 , the relative industrial calm was broken . |