Example sentences of "that [verb] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 2 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 3 | The roots of this war lie in Yugoslav history ( though not as deep as some claim ) , in the frailty of Tito 's state and in three distinct sorts of nationalism that sprouted as his odd form of communism collapsed . |
| 4 | For this reason he proposed a ‘ research model ’ that has as its central theme the notion that it is not sufficient that the work of teachers should be studied ( either in terms of outcomes or processes ) , but that they should study it themselves . |
| 5 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 6 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 7 | I closed my eyes and watched the sheets of warm colour that came as I relaxed or increased the tension of the lids . |
| 8 | Kylie is an approachable star but with glamour that grows as she becomes more famous . |
| 9 | The runway lights came on , two lines of haloed yellow flares that faded as they converged into the curtains of rain and smoke . |
| 10 | He saluted Melissa with a smile that faded as he became aware of the argument going on across the yard . |
| 11 | He said forget that run as she would have won by eight lengths on good ground . ’ |
| 12 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 13 | By a great effort of will she quelled the tremor that threatened as she went into his arms . |
| 14 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 15 | She did n't feel pain , only a small burst of pleasure that intensified as he then licked her reddened skin . |
| 16 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 17 | Rourke bared his teeth , and in the tense moments that followed as they squared up to each other they heard the unmistakable sound of a cough , and turned to see Adam make an appearance in the doorway . |
| 18 | This meant that I was free to respond to the effects that developed as I worked and I got a feel both for the subject and the pastels I was using . |
| 19 | She had blond hair that swung as she walked . |
| 20 | In this class , for example , stands adamantine rock , accustomed to laugh blows to scorn , and stalwart flint , and the hard strength of iron , and the copper bolts that scream as they resist their rooves . ’ |
| 21 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 22 | The problem is that try as you might to obliterate jealousy , jealousy keeps cropping up — that 's certainly my experience . |
| 23 | The strongest smell on the roof , though , was of the coke that sang as it burned in the brazier . |
| 24 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 25 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 26 | This typified the controversy that raged as he fought his way to the top in the late sixties . |
| 27 | As they reached their garden gate , he burst into a torrent of foul-mouthed racist abuse that continued as they went inside and closed the door . |
| 28 | Instant access and top interest rates that rise as your balance grows . |
| 29 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 30 | She was not expecting the vaguely defined figure that coalesced as her vision cleared . |