Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the courts interpret such phrases so as to give themselves more or less control as they wish . |
| 2 | Some lingering race memory remained though , some pervading conviction common to all Orientals , that this life was but one of many on the great wheel of existence and that reincarnation as someone better endowed or worse ( in his case surely worse ) awaited him . |
| 3 | The men got to their feet and began filing through the door on Gregson 's left , muttering to themselves and each other as they went . |
| 4 | Power to love God and each other as we should . |
| 5 | PANAMA CITY ( AP ) — Panamanian police arrested Ricardo Arias Calderon , the Christian Democrat former vice-presidential candidate , and some supporters as they toured remote provinces urging people to boycott the military-controlled government . |
| 6 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 7 | His distorted hands were clumsy about her throat and this time as she struggled , kicking and gasping , it was skin on skin , not a fantasy attack that did no harm . |
| 8 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 9 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 10 | Their labour and such skills as they possessed were no longer scorned . |
| 11 | There was little vocal participation by the people in the Mass , and such music as they used was generally in the context of other services or ‘ devotions ’ . |
| 12 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
| 13 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 14 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 15 | And such arguments as there were had been settled without recourse to the courts . |
| 16 | Frere watched him go , and such hopes as he might briefly have entertained receded with the clop of hooves . |
| 17 | It was her opinion , she told Rory , that there was something awful funny going on , that this western city in the poorest part of a poor country should have such places , and such shops as they could see all round them , and such terrific style . |
| 18 | On this basis , the nuclear programmes still accounted for the vast bulk of the capital and turnover and such profits as there were . |
| 19 | All round us were stark-naked ruins and such people as there were about were white-faced and grim . |
| 20 | Now we were at 2,000 feet , the grasslands and such trees as there had been were below us . |
| 21 | And all day as you climb , the released mind |
| 22 | Such groups find that their work becomes more and more routine as it is divided into specialist tasks . |
| 23 | There will again be Joint and Several liability as there was in Community Charge . |
| 24 | But that night as we sat around the fire no one mentioned it . |
| 25 | But This club as you know opens at eight o'clock in the evening . |
| 26 | ‘ We ca n't be certain about anyone just yet , but such evidence as we have seems to point in that direction . |
| 27 | Little accurate information is available on population sizes in the middle ages but such evidence as we do have for the UK suggests that there was a six- or sevenfold increase between AD 1100 and 1780 , with alternating lengthy periods of rapid and slow growth . |
| 28 | ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . ) |
| 29 | But such benefits as we may find here and elsewhere entail countervailing disadvantages . |
| 30 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |