Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 2 | This openness is fundamental to the total quality culture that the Quality Scotland Foundation espouses as it firmly believes that , by bringing together people with expertise in the quality field to help and advise those who wish to make a commitment to it , attitudes can really begin to change . |
| 3 | At the garden centre you can obtain bags of granite chippings that can also be used as decor for the aquarium base , although it is no use where high turnover undergravel filtration is in use as it soon blocks and becomes covered in a blanket of waste matter . |
| 4 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 5 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 6 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 7 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 8 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
| 9 | In no time at all the rib was ‘ tucking ’ — not on the main bed , as it usually does if it is going to have a fit of tucking , but this time on the ribber bed . |
| 10 | But this conclusion is not particularly illuminating as it merely says that children come into local authority care when no one else can care for them , a repetitive statement we call a tautology . |
| 11 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 12 | Henry Vizetelly remarks ( A History of Champagne , 1887 ) that the soil of Aÿ ‘ lends a flavour of peaches ’ , but as he also records that an anonymous document , entitled ‘ Mémoire sur la Manière de cultiver la Vigne et de fair le Vin en Champagne ’ , dated 1718 , reveals that the secret of Dom Pérignon was to add four or five stoned peaches to a piece of wine , the source of such an exotic flavour must be questioned . |
| 13 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |