Example sentences of "[coord] as [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And as Hopkins writes in a letter to Bridges : ‘ Now it is the virtue of design , pattern , or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer . ’ |
| 32 | Regrettably , time may be their undoing , particularly as the diminished funding for TVEI extension work shrinks and as criticism grows about the lack of control in its financing by government departments . |
| 33 | The little French restaurant was dark after the sunlight outside , and as Merrill paused for a moment in the doorway , accustoming herself to the gloom , a voice called gaily , ‘ Merrill ! |
| 34 | The autumn evenings had started to draw in , there was a slight chill in the air , and as Rachel stepped from her car she was glad she 'd worn her thick navy fisherman 's sweater over her jeans . |
| 35 | It was a swivel chair , and as Wycliffe came into the room he turned from the window to face his visitor . |
| 36 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 37 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 38 | Now they have started again , as investors convince themselves that the worst of the recession is over ; as some junk-bond issuers take advantage of falling interest rates and the stockmarket rally to refinance their debt more cheaply or turn it into equity ; and as bond-raiders speculate in distressed companies that they think may restructure themselves or be taken over . |
| 39 | And as Lucy walked into the house , Paula looked right through me . |
| 40 | They crossed the field at a leisurely walk , and as Lucy drew in deep breaths of the clear , crisp air she felt thankful for her jacket 's protection against the sharpness of the southerly breeze which whipped colour into her cheeks . |
| 41 | Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home . |
| 42 | We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war . |
| 43 | In fact the Welfs could not get their letters through Philip 's lines and Philip was much stronger than Otto militarily and as time wore on attracting more of the princes to his cause . |
| 44 | So what I was gon na say was , that , that partic , partic er participant observations typically involves actually living with the , the study for a fair amount of time , so erm although they might tell you a pack of lies initially you can actually observe what they 're like , what they do and see whether they fit what they 've said and as time goes on you ha hope to develop some kind of rapport with them so that they might totally understand . |
| 45 | And as time goes on you find he 's gone further and further away . |
| 46 | And as time goes by you will probably have to document in detail why the project is behind schedule . |
| 47 | Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote . |
| 48 | The only feature of the city shared by rich and poor alike was the atmosphere , and as time went on the manufacturers stopped living next to their mills , as Robert Thornton does , and retreated further and further into the suburbs . |
| 49 | And as time went on course I 'd got no experience of house cleaning boots and managing , or anything like that ! |
| 50 | And as Roberts leaned in a window , police grabbed him and bundled him in . |
| 51 | And as Grainne stared at him , horror and comprehension dawning in her eyes , he said in a voice of extreme tenderness , ‘ And she is your mother , Grainne . |
| 52 | And as pressure mounted for military intervention , NATO agreed to draw up plans to use force to make sure humanitarian aid gets through to the stricken region . |
| 53 | I 'm contributing to a book on art , and as Brangwyn worked with William Morris for a time , and some of his work is exhibited here , I thought I 'd take a look-see for myself . |
| 54 | No doubt in some cases this was true , but as research has indicated a much denser pattern of settlement in earlier periods , and as continuity seems to be the norm , the role of churches has required re-examination . |
| 55 | But after 40 minutes the first wave of the military action ended and as dawn broke over the capital there was no sign of a ground operation . |
| 56 | And as Mike referred to this morning , there are ways and means , if there 's items in here that need amending and improving , there are ways and means that you can do it . |
| 57 | Interbedded in the usual deepish water black shale are numerous boulder beds , that have been variously interpreted as ordinary sedimentary conglomerates , as tectonic breccias , as deposits from melting ice and as rock falls from towering cliffs . |
| 58 | And as light comes from above ( in other words , from outside the tank ) , some sort of lid is needed to keep the caterpillars from wandering off . |
| 59 | The use of MRI for staging pelvic cancers has recently increased and as technology advances with the development of surface coils and endoscopic coils , pelvic imaging is likely to become a prominent application . |
| 60 | Then with the utilization of satellites when satellite climatology ushered in a new era which Barrett ( 1974 ) has characterized as providing observing systems of the earth and atmosphere , as highly convenient data collection platforms , and as connection links between widely spaced ground stations between which large daily exchanges of weather data must take place . |