Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] as [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 2 | Therefore once you everything settles and you switch it on at night or in the day , anytime , as soon as somebody opens the door , the bell will go off . |
| 3 | We require some evidence of loss , either from a vet or an accountant , and as soon as we receive the reports we look at them speedily and with sympathy . |
| 4 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 5 | As soon as we heard the engine his grip tightened . |
| 6 | ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’ |
| 7 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as we spotted the advertisement for the lighthouse we were intrigued . |
| 9 | ‘ As soon as we got the report we suspected — well , we knew , I suppose . |
| 10 | and I said as soon as we got the opportunity of moving away we would do , and we searched all over the erm , when it come to , went into Lincolnshire , went into Wales |
| 11 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 12 | It consists in pointing out the fact that , as soon as we use the stages as a type of classification , we find we have more doubtful borderline cases than typical ones , because of the great variation of social systems in history in different parts of the world . |
| 13 | As soon as we have the results of the trials we shall publish them . |
| 14 | As soon as we entered the house we heard a low moaning and , on opening the living-room door , saw our landlady rocking herself backwards and forwards in her chair . |
| 15 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 16 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |
| 17 | The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher . |
| 18 | A sprinkling of members was busy ordering drinks and as soon as we approached the bar , there was a chorus of ‘ Welcome back , Captain ! ’ or ‘ Good to see you , Bill ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ As soon as we see the scripts , we start planning , look in our nasty books or ask Peter Salt our nursing advisor , ’ says Jan. skin for stitching scenes is made from a gelatine based substance which is coloured and moulded on to the actor . |
| 20 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
| 21 | But as soon as they hear The Old Rugged Cross they 're fine again , ’ he said . |
| 22 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 23 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 24 | Roberts 's ankle appeared broken , but the Chelsea players were not interested in retribution and the club , as soon as they knew the injury was less serious , put a message on the electronic scoreboard : an example of public relations from which others could learn . |
| 25 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 26 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |
| 27 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 28 | As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones . |
| 29 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 30 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |