Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 2 | When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole . |
| 3 | However , I can give my hon. Friend the undertaking that as long as she remains in the House such research will not be the Cinderella of the health service . |
| 4 | Now , as she romps in the garden of their Georgian home in Grayswood , Surrey , this energetic nine-year-old is just as much a part of the Nicholson family as Mike 's wife Diana , 50 , and his two grown sons Tom , 20 and William , 19 . |
| 5 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 6 | Karen Rake from the Maxwell club at Aylesbury will be chasing records in the pool at Sheffield this weekend as she competes in the British Championships … |
| 7 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 8 | She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 9 | As one dresses in the morning one is very conscious of the feel of the clothes on one 's skin , but after a fairly short time one ceases to be aware of the sensation . |
| 10 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 11 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
| 12 | As it says in the original rules : |
| 13 | ‘ Well , as it says in the books , it could augur good . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As it says in the Bible , ‘ God is no respecter of persons ’ , Romans 2–11 . |
| 15 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 16 | As it says in the article You own house and live in Surrey your surviving spouse is not going to get a great deal of the house . |
| 17 | Mabel often quoted lines of poetry to make her point , and whether they came from Tennyson , Keats , Wordsworth or Rupert Brooke , she always prefaced them with ‘ As it says in the Bible . ’ |
| 18 | To have towering , snow-spattered mountains everywhere you look , to gaze down into valleys , dotted — as it says in the brochures — with carved wooden chalets with roofs like lyres — to have all this and chocolate , too , is almost obscene . |
| 19 | As it says in the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , " So our troubles , we think , are basically of our own making . |
| 20 | But , as , as , as it says in the report which we 've had this evening , a bit of flexibility , a bit of balance . |
| 21 | It 's not Marxism because what we actually have now in a Maoist Communist Party , as it emerges in the course of the nineteen thirties , is a leadership composed not of socialist working class militants but of intellectuals whose prime motivation is that they are modernizing nationalists . |
| 22 | However , in a key passage intended to highlight the Alliance 's " transatlantic " character , the communiqué also stipulated the " necessary transparency and complementarity between the European security and defence identity as it emerges in the Twelve and the WEU , and the Alliance " . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 24 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 25 | Courage with its string of Bulk brews from John Smiths to Fosters now talks of a formidable challenge as it reorganizes in the face of a four percent drop in total British beer sales a year . |
| 26 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 27 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 28 | Cognitive psychologists must make a greater effort to understand cognition as it occurs in the ordinary environment … pay more attention to the details of the real world in which perceivers and thinkers live … come to terms with the sophistication and complexity of the cognitive skills that people are really capable of acquiring , and with the fact that these skills undergo systematic development . |
| 29 | Another explanation of the self-cure phenomenon as it occurs in the field is based on the observation that it may happen in lambs and adults contemporaneously and on pasture with insignificant numbers of infective larvae . |
| 30 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |