Example sentences of "as [conj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The space-time is of algebraic type D and , in particular , it may be noted that ( 13.29 ) The curvature is clearly non-singular as except in the aligned case ( or ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , such heedlessness — such invitation to injury , as if to a friendly playmate — can imperil our battle planning , risking loss of personnel and materiel . |
| 3 | LEFT The use of aerial photography in understanding cropmarks : at the top , the cropmarks seen from ground level ; in the centre the cropmarks are viewed as if in an oblique aerial photograph , and below , the same cropmarks are seen as if in a vertical aerial photograph . |
| 4 | But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation . |
| 5 | Like The Fabulous Baker Boys , the King Brothers had broken up as much because they 'd ‘ had it up to here ’ as because of the ominous advent of ‘ the group ’ . |
| 6 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 7 | The judge looked at him as though along an oval tunnel lined with gowns and faces . |
| 8 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |
| 9 | He watched her going down the steps of the stand , nervous and intent as though on a holy mission . |
| 10 | Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath . |
| 11 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 12 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 13 | The epidermis at the edge of the wound looks smooth , as though under a circumferential tension . |
| 14 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |
| 15 | And Liz had slowly swivelled her head round , and stared at her as though from a great way off , and had said dreamily , ‘ If you really want something badly enough , do you think you get it ? ’ |
| 16 | It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure . |
| 17 | In one of the poems were the following lines : I seem as though from a polished ship Torn Between the anchors at the dock And the currents of the sea . |
| 18 | There were no prices , no sizes , no way to tell which stock was which , so that racks and rails of dresses were transferred as though by a magic hand from one shop to another . |
| 19 | The words were spoken mechanically as though by a bad actor . |
| 20 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 21 | Kali and Hades had been plucked from their midst as though by a giant hand and flung several feet away , almost cut in half by the point-blank blast of sawn-off twelve-bores . |
| 22 | Say it as though in a snobby way for me . |
| 23 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 24 | Paul heard folk talk on his way as though in a foreign tongue ; he despaired of understanding the lectures . |
| 25 | He glared desperately around him as though in the faint hope that Siegfried might magically appear from nowhere . |
| 26 | Pausing to watch the big man stride away , his broad shoulders bent as though beneath a great weight , Tilly despaired that she could do nothing to help him . |
| 27 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |