Example sentences of "as the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reiff retaliated by trying to push the favourite back on to Aboyeur , and as the two went past the post Craganour was a head up , with Louvois just behind in third and Great Sport fourth . |
| 2 | The two modes have the same symmetries as the two derived from the internally symmetric PH 3 stretches , but they involve quite different types of motion . |
| 3 | It is the logical outcome of a desire to do away with the poor , just as the poor die in less dramatic ways , from sickness , malnutrition and drugs . |
| 4 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
| 5 | This situation probably produces the maximum amount of conflict between sales and marketing , as the former concentrate on their preoccupation with current sales and the latter concentrate on long-term market developments . |
| 6 | For instance , Realism and Idealism are not in direct competition , in so far as the former relies on a view of scientific method which the latter rejects . |
| 7 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 8 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the Lions , as the French persist in calling them , they will have had nothing like the preparation time of their opponents . |
| 10 | Supposing we had grown to know and love nuclear power ( as the French seem to ) , would we now be seeing it expanding rapidly from what the International Atomic Energy Agency claims is its present provision of 16 per cent of the world 's electricity to 25 per cent or more ? |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't know ’ , he says as the three embark on the master plan , ‘ that we were playing with fire — Greek fire , ’ he adds , ‘ the kind that burns and destroys ’ , in case we do n't know what playing with fire means . |
| 12 | I watched the screens unblinkingly as the three wheeled into triangular formation around my ship — their guns trained in an unmistakable attitude of menace . |
| 13 | Macmillan , one of the wiliest politicians of his time , also said , with typical understatement , as the Fifties drew to an end : ‘ We have not done badly . |
| 14 | Part of this was a hang over from the days of live Television , but even as the Fifties turned into the Sixties , and prerecording came into the limelight , the cost and cumbersome nature of videotape ruled out all but the most rudimentary of editing . |
| 15 | They call us Les Rosbifs as it is ( as the English refer to them disparagingly as the frogs ) and may indeed wonder what the students intend to do Ermentrude . |
| 16 | So as the 1980s drew to a close , the sub-sectors dubbed Coal , Construction , Petroleum and Metals were all in fine shape , and their outlook for the 1990s is promising . |
| 17 | In the great conservative monarchies of Prussia , Russia and the Habsburg empire military influences , reflected in such small but highly significant things as the habitual wearing by their rulers of army uniforms , pervaded the atmosphere of the court and many of the upper reaches of government . |
| 18 | Probably the same as the British felt towards the Germans . |
| 19 | The French , who kept the three fertile and relatively large islands of Martinique , Guadeloupe , and St. Domingue produced about as much sugar as the British did from their ten islands , where the soil was showing signs of becoming exhausted . |
| 20 | Yet , as the British returned to Menorca as holiday-makers and emigrants during the 20th century , cricket returned with them . |
| 21 | In short , as the 1950s came to a close , Western Europe was truly and literally at sixes and sevens . |
| 22 | SPARE a thought , as the Eighties come to an end , for the new-wave re-writers of Soviet history . |