Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychology expert John Street said : ‘ Outwardly , Prince William may look as though he 's coping , but inside he will be finding it very difficult . |
| 2 | Frequently , unmarried brothers of the husband or wife may share the house , as might more distant relatives , or people from the same village in Pakistan may come as lodgers . |
| 3 | Bernice could tell as she glanced over at him . |
| 4 | ET wild child Drew Barrymore will star as Long Island Lolita in an American TV movie about the true story of a schoolgirl who shot her married lover 's wife . |
| 5 | It needs , as a minimum , some complementary statement of aims of what the NHS should achieve as it moves into the next century . |
| 6 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 7 | I tell him Dynjandi — the local name for the waterfall that most visitors to Iceland would recognise as Fjallfoss — and he thinks a little . |
| 8 | I think that the hon. Lady is unwise to assume that Scotland will react as she proposes , but in any event , were that unlikely event to occur , Scotland would have to reapply for membership of the European Community . |
| 9 | The process theologian John Cobb can write as follows of the Spirit : ‘ It is the receptive , empathetic , suffering , redemptive , preservative aspect of God , whereas Logos is order , novelty , call , demand , agent , transformer and principle of restlessness . ’ |
| 10 | From what Jezrael could tell as she snatched rags of glances backwards , their pursuers had n't reached it yet . |
| 11 | There were important differences , however , as to whether ambassadors to the EC should double as those for the WEU ( as advocated by France ) or whether those for NATO should double as ambassadors to the WEU ( as advocated by the UK ) . |
| 12 | The team is likely to be unchanged by there 's a chance Terry Fenwick may appear as one of the subs … the other is likely to be Steve White … he 's fit again |
| 13 | The Bishop ordained that the Vicar of Hailing should receive as his portion £5 10s yearly and that he should have the same acreage of land as the vicars of old possessed and also " all oblations what so ever within the bounds and limits of the parish , all the tithes of hay , lambs , wool , mills , calves , chicken , pigs , geese , ducks , eggs , bees ' honey , wax , cheese , milk , milk-meats , flax , hemp , pears , apples , garden herbs , pigeon houses , and merchandise , fisheries , pastures , onions , garlic and saffron , also the tithes , sheaves cultivated either by plough or spade and also the tithes of wood for fuel , coppice wood , thorns , rushes , faggots and fardells , within the bounds of the Parish , all of which the vicars and his successors shall have " |
| 14 | Africa could emerge as another bargain basement … |
| 15 | In an interview with the South African Communication Service broadcast on May 21 , Foreign Minister Amr Mohammed Moussa of Egypt expressed hope that co-operation with South Africa would begin as soon as a political settlement was negotiated . |
| 16 | While in Bali the ASEAN leaders agreed that their forthcoming summit in Singapore would proceed as planned . |
| 17 | A letter in a man 's own hand is evidence to be read , along the lines and between the lines , and Owen can read as well as any , and better than most . |
| 18 | That was n't hard , because her mother worked at night , and Peg could do as she liked . |
| 19 | Betty and Bill Lewis will continue as booking co-ordinators . |
| 20 | SPECIAL RULES : Savage Orcs can skirmish as described in the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 21 | ‘ But Miss Everdene can do as she likes , and she 's chosen to manage her own farm — and keep me as an ordinary shepherd only . ’ |
| 22 | The price of Kevlar will reduce as it becomes more widely used , whereas carbon fibre is so energy-consumptive to manufacture that the likelihood is it will always be too costly for anything other than specialised use in the car industry . |
| 23 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 24 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 25 | Mr. Needham 's answer to Terry Carlin at the Making Belfast Work conference of May 1989 that BAT would exist as long as Belfast 's problems exist , is conspicuous by its absence from the TSB 's report of the conference published in its Economic Review of July 1989 . |
| 26 | Alan Milburn , Darlington 's Labour candidate , said : ‘ All the evidence suggests that fares are rising , that pensioners will loose their concessions and now services to Darlington will suffer as well . |
| 27 | There were important differences , however , as to whether ambassadors to the EC should double as those for the WEU ( as advocated by France ) or whether those for NATO should double as ambassadors to the WEU ( as advocated by the UK ) . |
| 28 | But I do wish Preston could sing as well . |
| 29 | Paul will do as I say . |
| 30 | THE Synod of Bishops which takes place next year in Rome will take as its theme ‘ The consecrated life and its role in the Church and in the world . ’ |