Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 2 | It becomes an important part of tactics on upwind legs as you get to higher standards . |
| 3 | My interviewees are taking up subject positions as readers as they talk to me . |
| 4 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 5 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 6 | Her lips moved to plead , but no sound passed them , and she glimpsed the flare of satisfaction in Luke 's smouldering eyes as they flickered to her mouth , which was like a crushed flower now , a red rose , brilliant and vulnerable . |
| 7 | The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so . |
| 8 | Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame . |
| 9 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 10 | Adam kept low and dodged between the cars as he ran to the pavement . |
| 11 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 12 | Fonda studiously ignores the hairs as he drawls to an off-screen interrogator . |
| 13 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 14 | The study aims to explore the nature and patterning of the variation in foreign language achievement in secondary schools as it relates to earlier first language development . |
| 15 | He did n't actually have to run his finger along the line in order to make sense of it , but he did like to mouth the words as he got to them . |
| 16 | Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public , but she had no such reservations as far as her son was concerned , and hugged him tight , choking on her words as she whispered to him to take care of himself . |
| 17 | The existence of vegetation , and its changing nature , explains much of the evolutionary success of dinosaurs as they adapted to their environment . |
| 18 | If so , encourage them to paint pictures as they listen to music or try using art games . |
| 19 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 20 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 21 | As the new book , Deformed Roses tells , Freda became involved in teaching mentally handicapped youngsters when she lived in Surrey Streey , Linthorpe , after seeing so-called ‘ ineducables ’ sitting listless and dejected outside their homes as she cycled to and from her teaching job in the town 's St Hilda 's district . |
| 22 | She clutched his arm at one point , bringing him to a halt in the middle of the pavement , heedless of the passers-by as she pointed to a tall column at the end of the street . |
| 23 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 24 | The words flew hoarsely from her lips as she got to her feet , hands at her mouth . |
| 25 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 26 | A feathery pattern of ice covered the mud of the yard and cracked under their feet as they ran to the privy , and it was n't much warmer indoors . |
| 27 | The landing shook beneath his feet as he tottered to the staircase and looked up . |
| 28 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 29 | The FPCR apply to a single justice exercising any of the above delegated functions as they do to the court and all references to " the court " should be read accordingly ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 30 | The bearing of such a burden , as one historian has recently remarked , suggests that in moving from lightweight to heavyweight in the European balance of power while simultaneously acquiring an overseas empire , Britain owed as much to her clerks and administrators as she did to her soldiers , sailors , generals and admirals . |