Example sentences of "and as we " in BNC.

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1 A firm basis for the study of Oriental art came more slowly , and as we shall see , some of the differences of approach between East and West still require wider recognition .
2 Let us praise , more than we do , and as we can here , the literal writer .
3 It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks .
4 We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck .
5 At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation .
6 We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows .
7 And as we all know , bids push up share prices .
8 Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in .
9 I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb .
10 For many years her models were the painters of her native France , and as we spent time in Provence this was a wonderful place for her to work .
11 We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard .
12 And as we can see from British Surrealism ( at the Mayor Gallery , 22a Cork Street , London W1 , until May 22 ) she was representative of the rank and file of that movement .
13 It was noticeable to everyone and as we disappeared behind the curtain , the laughter began .
14 She became there as the week went on and as we seriously , intently were able to talk to her and even comb her hair .
15 There was no cinema , no dance-hall , not even a café , and as we had no centre in which to foregather ( save The Galleon ) , and were all working on different shifts , it was impossible to take any initiative in organising group entertainment .
16 The amount reduces , of course , as we move away from the equator , and as we interrupt proceedings with nightfall and cloud .
17 Despite this , there are still long waiting lists for urgent adult admissions to mental handicap hospitals , and as we have noted the numbers of adults in mental handicap hospitals are only falling slowly .
18 But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals .
19 The drug age was in its infancy ; there would be many dead and injured in its wake and as we all now know in the wiser Nineties , the knock-on effects would reverberate in much more sinister and sordid terms not just for the rest of the decade but the rest of the century .
20 It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ?
21 Later life , in short , demands courage ; and as we shall see , imagination too .
22 And as we have seen , the life-styles of older men and women have been equally varied .
23 And as we have seen , retirement was then much less common , and confined to a restricted social minority .
24 And as we have already seen , Halgren 's ( 1974 ) experiment shows that pre-exposure results in retarded conditioning , both when the stimulus is used as a CS+ ( signalling reinforcement ) and when it is used as a CS- .
25 My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education .
26 And as we go to press , the equivalent of more than three Hiroshima 's have been dropped on Iraq .
27 However , elation at the beauty of the surroundings meant tandooried legs were far from my thoughts , and as we continued to the shapely Sgurr an Lochain , towering as it does over a tiny dark blue lochan , we agreed it could n't get much better .
28 The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights .
29 If the mountain is beautiful from the shore , it is mouth-watering from the top of Ben Damph , and as we retraced our steps through the snow , elated at having finally swapped slippers for boots and crampons , we knew that nothing would keep us from it .
30 Our first port of call was Strathbeg ; and as we drove through Crimond on our way to the loch , I smiled at the inscription on the face of the church clock : ‘ The Hour is Coming ’ .
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