Example sentences of "as [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 2 | One is release in which we walk as through a landscape , seeing the sublime aspects of nature and life , sometimes feeling the euphoria of release . |
| 3 | Christine , 52 , decided to tell the world of her own experiences about two years ago , as much for therapeutic reasons as through a desire to reach those with similar horror stories to tell . |
| 4 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 5 | This would enable them to recharge their yacht 's batteries equally well when sailing through the doldrums as through a gale in the North Atlantic . |
| 6 | After all , Mercurius was the tutelary deity of the Art , and it was of his very nature to beguile and confuse in this manner ; but she could take no comfort from the knowledge , for she must pursue him as through a hall of mirrors , from one bride-chamber to the next , and at each remove he shifted shape with such dispiriting agility that , again and again , she might have cried out loud for rest . |
| 7 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 8 | The first shape is a stack of diminishing wooden ovals , and one looks into it as through the wrong end of an extended telescope . |
| 9 | I had arrows on the brain as well as through the lungs , I thought . |
| 10 | The government , too , has a responsibility , as through the Common Agricultural Policy of price support system it has guaranteed a market for cereals and encouraged intensive production . |
| 11 | Gone was the pride he felt as through the night |
| 12 | Indeed , in situations where Health Authorities have had easy access to the skills of economists , as through the York Health Economics Consortium ( University of York , 1990 ) , demand has been high , suggesting that the appropriate skills for the assessment of efficiency have been lacking in the past . |
| 13 | He speaks in the life situation as well as through the sacred page . |
| 14 | This may mean providing income for certain groups of people , as through the British social security system . |
| 15 | The creator god Khnum is often depicted modelling man and Ka together on his potter 's wheel as through the Ka was a double of clone . |
| 16 | The valley was her , she moved in it as through the natural expression of her mind and feelings . |
| 17 | Crop growth will be affected by changes in the length of the growing season , water availability , soil erosion and the frequency of extreme events ( floods , droughts , frosts , heatwaves , forest fires ) as well as through the loss of fertile agricultural land along coasts due to the rise in sea level associated with global warming . |
| 18 | ‘ Candidates will be required to show that they have looked at marketing in the real world as well as through the limiting perspective of the texts . |
| 19 | By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR . |
| 20 | He had expected to have to batter his way laboriously through the months that had separated them , as through the stockade of a castle into which he must break by force of arms . |
| 21 | Mikhail Gorbachev took the request as as a joke but Mr Cliburn was entirely serious . |
| 22 | Before this could happen X/Open would have to establish a formal relationship with the UN after meeting initial requirements , such as proving — to the UN 's satisfaction — its status as as a non-governmental , not-for-profit organisation . |
| 23 | Smythson stayed on in the service of the Willoughby family , and was employed by them on administrative and financial business , as well as as a surveyor . |
| 24 | The appointee would not usurp the roles of the Institute president and secretary , it says , ‘ but should provide the opportunity for a higher public profile , the opportunity to become recognised as as the spokesman for the Institute , and the driving force in achieving the Institute 's longer term goals . ’ |
| 25 | In my day we had the As as the top stream ; the Bs and Cs were the mid-range ; the Es were ESN and the Ds were the dustbin men who roamed the yard after break and lunch times collecting empty milk bottles and rubbish . |
| 26 | The Joker was used as as the top card and the subject discarded this on the ‘ go ’ signal . |
| 27 | So far as the families of those involved in disciplinary proceedings are concerned , we do not even count as worth a thought ( ‘ Guilty until proven innocent ’ , 4 March ) . |
| 28 | But it would be necessary to ensure that the learning which resulted in respect of such content was accepted by students as worth the processing effort . |
| 29 | The ability to influence supplier costs , price and conditions of delivery may be seen as worth the extra managerial , administrative and quality assurance cost incurred in buying from a large number of small suppliers ; * large customers who pursue a deliberate policy of delaying payment for goods or services received . |
| 30 | She had never before known how to be still and wait ; there had never been anything as worth the waiting for as this was . |