Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , as so frequently happens in our military history the right man — and many would claim the only man — that was available at the time , assumed Command of Bomber Command in February 101 , , and I have no doubt that future historians will claim that Sir Arthur Harris inherited a bankrupt concern , a sum total of 374 aircraft with only about 40 four-engined bombers in that total . |
| 2 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 3 | As so often happens with VIP ; s on board , the weather suddenly changed to high summer for our passage down the west coast , and as we cleared Rhu Rheidh with the dramatic back drop of the Wester Ross mountains astern , and a calm blue sea ahead , the world seemed a different place . |
| 4 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 5 | At this very moment , the Germans attacked again and , as so often happens on the death of an inspired leader , Macker 's men lost heart . |
| 6 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 7 | His success depended , as so often happens in research , on entirely fortuitous events , of the kind which sometimes contribute as much as careful planning to the attainment of desired objectives . |
| 8 | ( As so often happens in secondary schools , the same individual may be enthusiastic in the one capacity for activity which he or she adamantly inveighs against in the other capacity . |
| 9 | As so often happens in the last years , his remaining family and oldest friends became of most importance to him . |
| 10 | As so often happens in North West cricket , they are following a family tradition . |
| 11 | They spread it all over Europe in competition with their bitter rivals the Rothschilds , who did not like the idea but were obliged to follow suit , and — as so often happens in periods of boom when financiers feel heroic and the money rolls in — it was much imitated , especially in Germany . |
| 12 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 13 | When a reaction set in , the experts ( as so often tends to be the case with childcare issues ) went over the top . |
| 14 | The timetable for leap-frogging them forward had been a masterpiece of staff work , but — as not infrequently occurs to the end products of the thorough German military mind — one small omission arose to defeat it . |
| 15 | Crédits mobiliers were the rage , at least until the Rothschilds won their battle with the Pereires and — as also often happens in boom periods — some operators ventured a little too far across the always hazy frontier between business optimism and fraud . |