Example sentences of "as [subord] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her crew lined up on deck as gravely as if at a business meeting . |
| 2 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
| 3 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |
| 4 | Tait twitched , as though at the end of an invisible wire , and his dead eyes flickered into life for a moment . |
| 5 | The children were having their eleven o'clock break , but as Wycliffe entered the square the ringing of a bell cut off the cacophony of sound as though at the flick of a switch . |