Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 2 | Social harmony and peace would prevail as everyone would have their range of roles to play and would know how to play them . |
| 3 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 4 | The amount of new housing in Northern Ireland , as everyone can see , has changed the housing situation from one of the worst in Europe to one of the best in Europe . |
| 5 | To fight the good fight as everyone should , |
| 6 | On arrival I surveyed ( as everyone must do ) the chimneys . |
| 7 | Admissions staff say students should n't panic as no-one will lose a place . |
| 8 | Palmerston , with the longest speech of the debate , started by saying that Members would not be committed by the present vote to any style , as nothing would be decided until next session , and attacked Manners for approving ‘ the erection of so frightful a building ’ , involving expenses and perhaps disappointment to the architect without consulting the House . |
| 9 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
| 10 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry about the bang , ’ she called , much as someone might apologise for slamming a car door too loudly , and she started to walk towards him . |
| 12 | As someone might discard an empty mixifoam container . |
| 13 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It does n't have to happen , ’ she said , her voice almost as stubborn as his could be at times . |
| 15 | That as his will he may do danger with . ’ |
| 16 | The sociologist , as I shall illustrate , is the despised , hairy , intellectual subversive , who is set against the ‘ clean and ordered British bobby ’ . |
| 17 | As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed . |
| 18 | We have mainly been concerned with the modern ‘ computational ’ version of the representational theory of mind ; but , as I shall mention again later , the more traditional views of mental life are no less representational — phenomenology , for example , is a representational theory of mind . |
| 19 | For me , therefore , the issue of the death penalty is primarily — though not , as I shall admit , wholly — a practical one . |
| 20 | Yet , as I shall try to show , Nicolson 's account is far too discreet , and obscures some of the most important features of the crisis . |
| 21 | As was noted above and as I shall explore in further detail below , both of these involved a flow of blood — the one positively valued , the other negatively , and both had profound resonances for the involvement or non-involvement of men and women in public religion . |
| 22 | As I shall discuss in Chapter 9 , more long-lasting changes in gene activation are involved in the differentiation of cells in higher organisms , for example the differences between cells in the kidney , liver , intestine and so on . |
| 23 | If you burn these , they shall have an afterlife in my memory , as long as I shall live , like the after-trace of a spent rocket on the gazing retina . |
| 24 | This then reminds us that although there is a veritable plethora ( and , as I shall argue , cornucopia ) of potentially useful publicly available information artefacts in each enterprise 's external environment , in their format and detailed context , these artefacts will often not be directly usable by the enterprise 's decision makers in the context in which they find themselves to help solve the tasks in hand . |
| 25 | In fact , as I shall discuss later , we can not get a simpler effect . |
| 26 | The fact that in the event the volume of training proved insufficient , relates ( as I shall argue later ) to the whole issue of priorities in teacher education and to the relationship between expectations in curriculum reform and means available . |
| 27 | However , as I shall indicate in my concluding chapter , there were faults in Bukharin 's own work . |
| 28 | And , as I shall explain more fully in Chapter 2 , it is quite possible to ensure that they do not suffer in any way at all , whether mentally , physically or emotionally . |
| 29 | Punch lace ( as I shall call it ) is almost as easy as knitting Fair Isle . |
| 30 | The notion of man as an ‘ amplifier ’ which I take to mean that he enlarges programmes of skill , which have been developed by another , in order to manipulate machines is one that has far-reaching consequences as I shall try to show in this paper . |