Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a great advantage in regenerating large columes of previously cooked food on high throughout operations only as the demand occurs . |
| 2 | There were voices outside as the train came alive . |
| 3 | Margaret closed her eyes tightly as the ruler came down hard six times across her palm . |
| 4 | The Volvo fared little better but Donna closed her eyes tightly as the impact hurled her forward again and sent her crashing against the steering column with enough force to knock the breath from her . |
| 5 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 6 | Many consumers did not even know of the charge until after the winter of 1948/9 when it was imposed ; because of cyclic meter reading , many received their winter bills only as the charge was lowered ; and some were never surcharged at all . |
| 7 | The Head , who had obviously prepared a lengthy moralising talk for this historic first assembly in the new sports hall rose to his feet just as the bell for the end of assembly rang . |
| 8 | Michael Jopling , standing just two feet away as the tale unwound , said that he knew the feeling . |
| 9 | While Simon and Andy were keen to offer a quality service in a limited number of areas essentially as the profession was 20 years ago — Amanda and Roger wanted to opt for a slightly broader service . |
| 10 | The Council is , then , here solemnly declaring that throughout the world local churches , or groups of linked churches , have the right and duty , not to be ruled from Rome , but to govern themselves with their own traditions and pastoral needs just as the decree implies the Oriental Churches should do . |
| 11 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 12 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 13 | However , staying for a moment with hi-jacking , here we have a specialised form of the Breakthrough Phenomenon , which until the antidote is produced or produces itself , has quite startling pyrotechnic results , but collapses again as the antidote is devised . |
| 14 | ‘ That guy just getting into a cab , ’ he said five minutes later as the chauffeur drove out of the car park . |
| 15 | It had reached the lights just as the amber changed to red and turned down the Sandwich road . |
| 16 | Ace was worrying about these questions even as the suit 's claws were closing round the distorted cube , and lifting it to reveal indicator lights , a display screen , a keypad : a control panel . |
| 17 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 18 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 19 | At last Lucenzo buttoned his coat , and she pulled on her woollen gloves just as the taxi came to a halt . |
| 20 | The budget will be blown out of the skies tomorrow as the betting tops the million pound mark … |
| 21 | Football , now , and the chairman of Swindon Town says he deeply regrets having to sell one of the club 's best players just as the race for promotion to the Premier League is hotting up . |
| 22 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning … |
| 24 | These observations are converted to probabilities just as the weather data were converted to probabilities in the first example . |
| 25 | The decision to return to the gold standard , and to operate it , often necessitated the rise of interest rates which acted as a burden upon the exporting industries just as the reflation of the pound had made exporting more difficult . |
| 26 | Donal O'Sullivan , infectious disease control expert , said Guy 's could not have shut wards sooner as the source had not been traced . |
| 27 | ‘ Nobody in the present cast is in the race , ’ wrote Gordon Gow , ‘ with the single exception of Walter Matthau who deadpans beautifully as the miser Vandergelder and even gets away with his preposterous volte-face in the telescoped conclusion . ’ |
| 28 | This uniformity expresses that which occurs in the progress of autumn to winter , of day to night , and of fire to ashes just as the symmetry in the rhythm show light and dark . |
| 29 | BILLIONS of pounds were wiped off shares yesterday as the pound slumped again . |