Example sentences of "and as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VII , asking for such a loan in 1496 , told his people that ‘ this is a thing of so great weight and importance as may not be failed , and therefore fail ye not thereof for your said part … as ye intend the good and honour of us and of this our realm ; and as ye tender also the weal and surety of yourself ’ . |
| 2 | And as they push those systems harder , they will be able to move beyond their obsession with sales per store and think more about maximising sales per customer . |
| 3 | He may not know a word of Burmese but he will share a fag with the interested Burman who is watching all that is going on , and as they puff away together contentedly , something intangible will pass from the one to the other . |
| 4 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 5 | A kestrel 's prey might be something as small as a beetle , and as they tend to hover twenty or thirty feet above the ground , their eyesight and the accuracy of their dive are both awe-inspiring . |
| 6 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 7 | Things do not go well , and as they climb higher it become clear that they are also no longer philosophically in tune . |
| 8 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 9 | And as they get ready for the Big One , the title decider , the lads will clutch at every available straw . |
| 10 | Even very young children are aware that people think differently , and as they get older they need a model of how to discuss differences honestly without papering over the cracks . |
| 11 | And as they get into , as you say , power and I quite agree somebody has a talk with them so look here |
| 12 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 13 | And as they go about the painstaking task of piecing the problem together there is one solution which everyone fears . |
| 14 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 15 | And as they come , as Naomi comes back to the place where she went astray so God starts to bless , so much so that she does n't know whether she 's standing or sitting ! |
| 16 | partners own equity in those businesses and as they thrive and prosper and grow the value of that equity increases . |
| 17 | But children grow up and as they reach twenty years of age , the rights and concerns which have provided them with an education , and their families with a range of supports , begin to fall away . |
| 18 | In all societies older people tell younger ones about the past , and as they tell it , they transform it : a man 's experience is his grandson 's tradition . |
| 19 | The crew have families and need work , and as they become virtual employees of the band , the band has to act with appropriate responsibility . |
| 20 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 21 | The 11+ did n't test for those , and as they become more important — spatial skills and problem-solving ability , for instance — so girls ' performance in mathematics tends to deteriorate . |
| 22 | They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation . |
| 23 | And as they walk staccato , carefully avoiding any bumps or pitfalls that will affect their stride , each gets lost in a world that is so familiar to them now . |
| 24 | He falls in a heap , and as they pass every dog on the right of the line raises a leg and pees on him . |
| 25 | The particles travel close to the speed of light and as they pass through the bending magnets they emit radiation , covering wavelengths typically from 0.1 to 106 nanometres , and collimated into the plane defined by the circular machine . |
| 26 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 27 | The principal rivers of the Empire flow from the east to the west , and as they converge they become greater still . |
| 28 | Hospital Trusts appear to have the freedom to choose what they provide , and as they increase in number and DHA provision declines , it is possible that long-stay care will become a residual service , separated from profit-making , ‘ attractive ’ services . |
| 29 | Critical opinion has divided specifically over the film 's most famous sequence : to save the commune the men eventually come together to dig a canal and as they dig tension is built up by drumbeats and speeded-up photography . |
| 30 | These have a rapid turnover , and as they die the bacteria responsible for their decay use up all the oxygen in the pond , thus destroying all animal life . |