Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a statement of affairs has been lodged , the official receiver must also send a summary of it together with his observations on it unless he has previously reported to them and nothing material can be added , but if the lodging of a statement of affairs has been dispensed with , the official receiver must give creditors a summary of the bankrupt 's affairs ( amplified , modified or explained as he thinks fit ) ( rr 6.75 and 6.76 ) . |
| 2 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 3 | She blew the ashes clear and spat as the dust went into her mouth . |
| 4 | Outwardly he was calm and composed as he walked in the warm evening sunshine towards the House , but like the swans gliding serenely across the water , he too was paddling like hell underneath . |
| 5 | Losing the desire for material things — in fact the total spurning of them — gives calm and release as long as that desire is not replaced by the desire for such mental delights as ecstasy . |
| 6 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 7 | The CITES regulations state that ‘ Management Authorities of the Parties shall be satisfied that any living specimen will be so prepared and shipped as to minimise the risk of injury , damage to health or cruel treatment ’ . |
| 8 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 9 | My father , now free and teaching as usual , felt less and less safe . |
| 10 | All the sixteen-man crew were as trained and tested as astronauts . |
| 11 | You 're wet and shivering as it is . |
| 12 | It is normally unlined and made as one short curtain rather than as a pair . |
| 13 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 14 | But while Scotland 's wilderness areas are still not as overcrowded and overdeveloped as Yosemite or even the Lakes , the damage is there for all to see . |
| 15 | And sadly the first time he flew without me he perished , leaving Bob Pointer and myself wondering why events in our puny lives are so ordained and arranged as to inflict the maximum hurt at a time like that . |
| 16 | Investigators believed that the conversations were different and intercepted as Mr Gilbey used his car phone on the outskirts of Oxford to call Diana at Sandringham . |
| 17 | For nature , Gaia , is a whole ; created as such and working as such . |
| 18 | She effectively ran this autonomous branch from the position of secretary until 1894 and remained as consultant until it was fully absorbed into the Institute in 1897 . |
| 19 | She was X-rayed and diagnosed as suffering from pleurisy or pneumonia . |
| 20 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 21 | A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps . |
| 22 | Kris Kristofferson walks by , as silvery and twinkling as Captain Bird 's Eye . |
| 23 | But though the relationship , when satisfactory , is relatively straightforward and works as would be expected when any large organization is taken over by a new and competent managing director , there are other cases where problems can arise . |
| 24 | A tiny flame of hope that Luce had never even acknowledged flickered and died as his words , and the facts behind them , hammered themselves into her brain . |
| 25 | R. H. Tawney observed that the workman 's philosophy was the same as his masters : ‘ get as much and give as little as possible ’ . |
| 26 | A recent report by the DHSS Operational Research Service reviews methods for calculating nurse demand and recommends an evolutionary — start simple and refine as necessary — approach which has built-in evaluation and cross-checking elements to allow judgemental inputs to be scrutinized and upon which the process of informing , questioning and understanding can be based ( 1 ) . |
| 27 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 28 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 29 | The resulting pellet was resuspended , rehomogenised and centrifuged as above . |
| 30 | Raw food from the freezer can be completely cooked and the finished dish cooled , packed and frozen as usual . |