Example sentences of "and [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I 'm going to comment on every aspect and section of the mag , and so as the trend goes : |
| 2 | The centre and focus of the whole is Jesus Christ himself — Jesus Chalst as ‘ true God and true man ’ , and so as the key both to the nature and activity of God and to the meaning and purpose of human existence . |
| 3 | And only as the operation of the Acts was perceived did a groundswell of opposition develop . |
| 4 | Parental and public anxiety grew , and especially as the size of the eleven-plus group expanded without any corresponding increase in grammar-school provision . |
| 5 | And just as the Spirit can not be equated with any property in man , equally it can not be regarded as the stuff of which the world is made , the comprehensive life principle which integrates the universe , as the Stoics maintained — a view which , through pagan philosophical influence , crept into the inter-testamental books of the Apocrypha . |
| 6 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 7 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 8 | And Just as the Gospel had concentrated on Jerusalem the location of God 's great exodus for man , so the Acts shows the mission spreading out from that centre in ever widening circles . |
| 9 | Once out of the bustling grimy city and on our way we motored into the heart of rural England , through expanses of green rolling hills with the odd kestrel hovering by the roadside looking for prey , and just as the sun began to set we passed Stonehenge , the strange stone monoliths eerily silhouetted against the dusky pink horizon . |
| 10 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |
| 11 | And just as the MOD has chosen to let such production lines be closed down , rather than pay contractors for the cost of mothballing them , so too has it cast a cold eye on the plight of domestic defence electronics companies . |
| 12 | And just as the train gave wayto the motor car , so the countryside life chronicled in ’ Twenty-four Square Miles ’ was changing forever . |
| 13 | He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’ |
| 14 | Columba sent one of his companions into the water , and just as the creature opened its jaws for its second course , Columba with a wave of his hand banished it : Nessie , all humps and coils , fled whining . |
| 15 | The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making . |
| 16 | And just as the shepherd had to go out and look for it , and search for it . |
| 17 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 18 | Beuno did n't suggest that Elizabeth would be expecting him back , but ate his omelette as casually and thoughtlessly as the squirrel who had moved off to eat nuts in a different hazel tree . |
| 19 | Her identity in the society is as the daughter of somebody , as the wife of somebody and finally as the mother of somebody . |
| 20 | And finally as the peat of these mineral-loving fen plants , fed by percolating ground water , built up to the water table , there was a switch to acid bog vegetation fed by mineral-poor rain . |
| 21 | Many different things will eddy back and forth as the link between east and west Europe is reopened . |
| 22 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 23 | As the money was better , all the children still at home , and moreover as the bank had begun to play ball-games again , she had felt constrained to accept . |
| 24 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 25 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 26 | The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties . |
| 27 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |
| 28 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 29 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 30 | Honours came thick and fast as the world recognised his achievements . |