Example sentences of "and as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't completely regained her strength , and as no one knew the truth about her absence , no allowances were made . |
| 2 | If the gift falls within the donor 's nil rate band — currently £71,000 ( but increased to £90,000 under the budget ) — no tax would be payable , and as no tax is paid , there is nothing to claim taper relief against . |
| 3 | He told us they 'd cut off the water supply to the house , and as no one can carry on long without water , he thinks they 'll surrender quite soon . |
| 4 | ‘ Who served it ? ’ repeated Rose , and as no one spoke , picked on the most nervous-looking individual . |
| 5 | And as every greyhaired person knows by dint of experience , there is no black and white issue , only grey . |
| 6 | People from different families live and work in the same area and as a result women are forced into Burkhas . ’ |
| 7 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 8 | He insisted on wearing his Sunday best for such an important occasion , and as a mark of deference to the young master . |
| 9 | It is disheartening to come to terms with the fact that your metabolism has adjusted to such a small calorie intake , and as a result your weight is unlikely to change . |
| 10 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 11 | There was a very light cross wind from the right which caused a swing in that direction , and as the Nimbus has only a tail-skid , it swung as it started its take-off run . |
| 12 | If so , provide an opening yourself and as the opponent goes for it , rock back and punch over the top . |
| 13 | His tribute was meant for Alex and Mary McLaggan , but as he sang he half turned towards Jean , he could not keep his look away from her , and as the words enveloped her she felt herself choking in a warm cocoon , her cheeks burned unbearably , he should not be doing this , it was too much in front of so many friends and strangers . |
| 14 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 15 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 16 | Ill-defined regions of the data , rational equations , unjustified polynomial fits ( particularly for extrapolations ) , failure to examine data at low X and Y values sufficiently , reversing X and Y values , and as the manual puts it , ‘ trusting numbers rather than the evidence of your own eyes ’ are some others . |
| 17 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 18 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |
| 19 | one of the major problems engineers face is that the gearbox casing acts like a giant thermometer bowl , and as the oil heats up and expands , the level in the gearbox rises in a four-speed unit by 20 to 30mm . |
| 20 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 21 | In the move between the last position and this , a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink , and as the chill of early morning crept into them , the sweet tea lifted their morale . |
| 22 | The shed itself was largely of wooden construction , and as the photograph of its pre-conversion condition indicates ( Plate 15 ) , it was in a very ramshackle state . |
| 23 | But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection . |
| 24 | And as the lifeboats are run entirely on voluntary contributions and membership fees , the £6 you give to us is vital . |
| 25 | He was eventually caught with three laps left and as the pack came past him he unfortunately caught the heels of another member of England 's Commonwealth Games team , Ikem Billy , who dropped out . |
| 26 | And as the decade comes to a close that mortgage burden is weighing particularly heavy . |
| 27 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 28 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 29 | They were in their plastic bags on the outdoor grounds , and as the sun came up , it came up over the top of the hill and hit the silver pyramid and there was David on stage singing . |
| 30 | And as the individual thinks , so , in more general terms , does the larger community : the decline of Britain 's automobile industry to the point where imports exceeded exports became the measure of the country 's fall from a place in the industrial front rank . |