Example sentences of "as [subord] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 2 | Her crew lined up on deck as gravely as if at a business meeting . |
| 3 | ‘ Aye , such heedlessness — such invitation to injury , as if to a friendly playmate — can imperil our battle planning , risking loss of personnel and materiel . |
| 4 | LEFT The use of aerial photography in understanding cropmarks : at the top , the cropmarks seen from ground level ; in the centre the cropmarks are viewed as if in an oblique aerial photograph , and below , the same cropmarks are seen as if in a vertical aerial photograph . |
| 5 | By the orifice , as though outside a cave , a man with vividly drawn , unideal features ( so also the man with the snake ) directs a dance of girls . |
| 6 | Bells rang as though for a funeral and the first rumour was that both Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel had been killed . |
| 7 | A sinister looking cluster of motor-bikes huddled in front of the other one , the Goat and Compasses ; as the Glovers passed two more arrived with a deafening roar and two androgynous figures , clad in skin-tight leather as though for a bout of deep-sea diving , went into the pub , stripping off immense gauntlets . |
| 8 | Dexter had been stationed in Brixton several years before and he inhaled the familiar atmosphere as he wound along Coldharbour Lane towards Peckham : the dilapidated shops selling second-hand furniture and televisions , the handsome couple posing against a car as though for a fashion magazine , the parked cars tumbling over the pavement . |
| 9 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 10 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 11 | their kite is rocking as though on a pendulum as the line is relaxed , tugged , and relaxed again . |
| 12 | He watched her going down the steps of the stand , nervous and intent as though on a holy mission . |
| 13 | He settled , as though with a folding of wings , beside Nicandra . |
| 14 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 15 | I would write letters glowing with warmth and tenderness , poems as though to a damsel with a dulcimer , gentle cadences for gentle ladies with eyes like emerald . |
| 16 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 17 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 18 | Henrietta started to explain patiently , as though to a child . |
| 19 | The Baronessa raised a long white finger , weighted at the base by a sapphire ring , and wagged it as though to a child . |
| 20 | David Rosen came to the steps and peered into the darkness as though into a room where he had no right to be . |
| 21 | Holy Living he described as ‘ rules to live under , as though under a physician 's hand , to be used like nourishment , that is by a daily care and meditation ’ . |
| 22 | The epidermis at the edge of the wound looks smooth , as though under a circumferential tension . |
| 23 | In one of the poems were the following lines : I seem as though from a polished ship Torn Between the anchors at the dock And the currents of the sea . |
| 24 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |
| 25 | It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure . |
| 26 | And Liz had slowly swivelled her head round , and stared at her as though from a great way off , and had said dreamily , ‘ If you really want something badly enough , do you think you get it ? ’ |
| 27 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 28 | The dresser drawers fallen out and spilled , the dishes from the shelves above in fragments on the floor , the chairs thrown about as though by a madman , the table upended and even the black kettle from the hob lying among the debris . |
| 29 | There were no prices , no sizes , no way to tell which stock was which , so that racks and rails of dresses were transferred as though by a magic hand from one shop to another . |
| 30 | Kali and Hades had been plucked from their midst as though by a giant hand and flung several feet away , almost cut in half by the point-blank blast of sawn-off twelve-bores . |