Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the ‘ rivers ’ are ‘ shallow ’ in this world but , as Ralegh 's nymph retorts , in reality they ‘ rage , and rocks grow cold ’ and nothing in nature is as picturesque and harmless as Marlowe would wish it to be . |
| 2 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 3 | There is not a ‘ great divide ’ between them as Greenfield would have us believe . |
| 4 | As Pierre will tell you thees booing is not for you , it ees for me ! ’ |
| 5 | It is easily confused with opposition to particular American policies — rather as McCarthy used to accuse his enemies of ‘ unAmerican activities ’ . |
| 6 | She did n't even dare look for her , let alone make contact , but at least Chesarynth was as safe as Jezrael could make her . |
| 7 | Oh , I 'm an exotic to them — being a bit of a ‘ musty ’ , as Feeny used to call it , is n't anything to deny here in Paris . |
| 8 | The trip , which will take place during the school holidays , will bring the 36 boys up against European skills — and as Jim will tell you — give them a valuable insight into the kind of football the Europeans play . |
| 9 | as Patrick used to say you 'd be able to poo through the eye of a needle |
| 10 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 11 | ‘ And are they spending as much on promotion as Jefferson would have us believe ? ’ pressed Toby . |
| 12 | As far as Lucy could see she was dressed for going out , and her manner was grim . |
| 13 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |
| 14 | But he always gave the impression that he cared much more about people than things — even if that meant falling , as Pat would have it , for the occasional sob story . |
| 15 | Charity schools were inexpensive and could be readily supplied in the boom years , while even such an early champion of the bourgeoisie as Defoe could approve their attack on sloth and indiscipline as going to the heart of the problem of the labouring poor . |
| 16 | Images of that immortal sea , of children sporting on the shore and the mighty waters rolling evermore , are not so much allusions to what brought us hither , as Wordsworth would have it , but reminders to book this year 's holiday to the Costa del Sol or the Bahamas . |
| 17 | As Kenny will tell you to put some olive oil in your pasta . |
| 18 | He was always very protective and gentlemanly towards Tom 's mother , but as long as Tom could remember they had slept in separate bedrooms . |
| 19 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 20 | But the conditions in which this challenge becomes significant are social ones rather than ‘ technological ’ as Goody would have us believe . |
| 21 | In the Nietzschean view , only art has the power to reawaken dead metaphors and to shake the rigid structures of abstraction , or as Brooke-Rose would have it , to make discourses ‘ run here and there again' . |
| 22 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |
| 23 | Nevertheless he does signal some , as Julian would call them , " means " that might help . |
| 24 | One unfortunate Girl had a more ample bosom than her colleagues and as Jennie could see her sticking out in front , she was ordered to get further back . |
| 25 | As Nelson would have it , England expects … . |
| 26 | As far as Jenna could see there was nothing there . |
| 27 | You only do it with those whom you know can take it , as Bill could take it , and as all the climbers with whom I grew up could take it , and hand it out . |
| 28 | It concludes that Pentium is not , as Intel would have us believe , a RISC in CISC clothing . |
| 29 | It concludes that Pentium is not , as Intel would have us believe , a RISC in complex instruction set clothing . |
| 30 | In fact it became much worse as Diana would make herself sick four , sometimes five times a day . |