Example sentences of "[pron] as in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 2 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 3 | Ideally I would like to work part-time , and have written to you as in the last few years I have seen part-time posts advertised at Prentice 's . |
| 4 | Sometimes the political ambivalence about a policy is reflected not so much in the policy itself as in the constraints that are set upon the implementation process . |
| 5 | It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein ‘ t is precious of itself As in the prizer . |
| 6 | A biotic effect may be attained via an environmental one as in the case of allelopathy favouring particular associations of plants , mentioned in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | In 1899 she wrote of herself as in a state of ‘ waiting , not actually living ’ . |
| 8 | Cold , and terrified of growing colder , so that when he opened his arms and put them around her , his musk-scented cloak coming with them , ample enough to cover them both , all she felt was the salvation of his warmth , his hard , hot body supporting her as she shook and shivered against him , that blessed , beautiful fur enclosing her as in a nest , muffling her from the killing storm . |
| 9 | Then slow relief flooded her as in the giggling , whispering darkness they mimed the act of making love . |
| 10 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 11 | I have never elsewhere come across the style of this interior , although I recognise it as in a very common tradition . |
| 12 | We shot another 74 and we were as glad of it as in the first round . |
| 13 | To create this mass , rather than ‘ borrow ’ it as in the exchange , requires an equivalent amount of energy . |
| 14 | In the European legislation the emphasis is on the effects of a restriction , rather than the form of it as in the UK . |
| 15 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 16 | It many cases , especially those which were related to long-standing feuds , both sides no doubt viewed themselves as in the right . |
| 17 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |
| 18 | However , the relatively high ( if lower than average ) proportion of people in the educational and health occupations regarding themselves as in the seasonal , temporary or casual category might result from many of them being engaged on a " temporary " basis but for an unspecified ( non-fixed ) period , perhaps to replace workers who are absent or until regular or permanent recruitments can be made . |
| 19 | Sometimes women turn their anger against themselves as in the pain of bereavement : take overdoses of sleeping pills , cut their hair short , rake their skin with their finger nails , feeling that physical pain is more tolerable than emotional pain . |
| 20 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |