Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard was never arrogant , but he was — as Pierre Berton once remarked on Canadian television , ‘ a very confident young man . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That 's all right , ’ he said as Herr Nordern eagerly refilled it . |
| 3 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 4 | As Mortimer Wheeler once remarked ‘ In archaeology we should constantly remind ourselves : we are digging up people not things . ’ |
| 5 | When it flared up he put the coal on , small lump by small lump as Auntie Lou always did , and as Carrie watched him , doing Auntie Lou 's job , all the anger went out of her . |
| 6 | For one thing , as Ian Lang rightly observed yesterday , that is how single markets work . |
| 7 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 8 | ‘ Pressing flesh ’ , as Lyndon Johnson once put it , was foreign to me and to Merlyn . |
| 9 | BREAKING UP , as Neil Sedaka once put it , is hard to do . |
| 10 | The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable , as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 11 | TORY MPs last night heaved a collective sigh of relief as David Mellor finally quit . |
| 12 | As Jean Trillo rightly observed , this was a Fouroux side without the inspirational Gascon : ‘ They missed him . |
| 13 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 14 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 15 | As Richard Flathman disapprovingly remarked , ‘ There has been a remarkable coalescence of opinion around the proposition that authority and authority relations involve some species of ‘ surrender of judgment ’ on the part of those who accept submit or subscribe to the authority of persons or a set of rules and offices . |
| 16 | So the museum is stuck firmly in the public sector — except that , as Miss Rankine drily observes , the politicians have robbed it of all Whitehall 's perks , including free auditing and legal advice . |
| 17 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 18 | As Andrey Tupolev once put it , ‘ the country needs aircraft like black bread . |
| 19 | It is not a substitute for sex , it is a kind of sex , ‘ sex with someone you love ’ , as Woody Allen once said . |
| 20 | They were offered , as Sue Lawley proudly pointed out , the only opportunity of quizzing all three party leaders under the same roof , though not at the same time . |
| 21 | But life was never easy for the young refugee , as Greta Burkill later recorded : |
| 22 | The questions rose to a clamour , but no-one stood in the way as Sergeant Bird smoothly drove off again with a regretful shake of his head . |
| 23 | For , as Giles Playfair rightly pointed out , when children under 16 are thought to be the victim of indecent assault , they would not , as could homosexuals under these proposals , be also treated as the culprits . |
| 24 | A beautiful lady with as much charisma as Marilyn Monroe still maintains , can make a man feel romantic when this lovely creature is shown performing a kind of fan dance with all four fans in motion . |
| 25 | Just as North America once had no barbed wire dividing the range , neither does eighteenth-century England have any boundaries , excepting mountains and rivers ( and some fortified towns , agricultural ditches and low stone walls ) . |
| 26 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 27 | As Gore Vidal once remarked on TV , ‘ America has one-party , the Property Party , although it has two wings , the Republican and Democratic ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a chip off the old block ’ as Alan McDonald successfully leaps the obstacle . |
| 29 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 30 | Traditional Socialist values , notably egalitarianism , remain but , as Roy Hattersley frequently complains , Labour as a party has not embodied them in policies — or even slogans — that enunciate a clear vision of what a Labour Britain would be like . |