Example sentences of "as they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |
| 2 | In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be . |
| 3 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 4 | But it also suggests that many –normal , healthy' people are not as immune from everyday chemicals as they might appear to be . |
| 5 | It could n't be simpler , but be warned , the answers may not be as obvious as they might appear . |
| 6 | A bee has 5000 facets and would see flowers rather as they might appear in a pointillist painting . |
| 7 | One if you want the best when you pig out you have to pay for them , and two they are not always as meaty as they might appear . |
| 8 | Sufficient knowledge and experience exists within Admin to keep normal operations going on the Altos , and to deal with operational problems as they might arise . |
| 9 | We have looked at abilities , experience and goals as they might influence behaviour at work . |
| 10 | It 's just that I think that they do n't publicize a lot of the services as well as they might do . |
| 11 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 12 | The following excerpt from the articles was cited by Morland J. as an example of the allegations as they might affect the reputation of the council and might be defamatory : |
| 13 | The Secretary of State for Transport on the interpretation of powers contained in the Ports Bill , as they might affect ports in Scotland ; |
| 14 | Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’ |
| 15 | When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression . |
| 16 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
| 17 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 18 | In a century of imperial expansion it was inevitable that many sons died far from home and not , as they might have wished , in the bosom of the family . |
| 19 | In the event , the ending of their two Dorset years came with dramatic suddenness , and brought not a narrowing of their lives , as they might have feared , but the beginning of a period marked by profound and creative friendship . |
| 20 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 21 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 22 | Characters are cut-outs , mental events are banned as if the Bloomsbury tradition needed to be ruthlessly exorcised , and names like Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies explain character in boldly extra-realistic ways , much as they might have done in Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 23 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 24 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 25 | Prefaced by ground plans of the three principal floors , each chapter is devoted to one interior , reproducing drawings , watercolours and photographs of these rooms as they might have been , were and are , along with many illustrations of objects within them . |
| 26 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 27 | While the Macintosh and PC both have a number of data base programs in common ; Ashton Tate 's dBASE and Blyth Omnis/Crystal being the best supported , the software houses do n't seem to have kept the products quite as similar as they might have done . |
| 28 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 29 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 30 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |