Example sentences of "as the [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical and comparative evidence , as well as the evidence drawn from our own society , presents many difficulties in the way of reaching any clear decisions on these matters . |
| 2 | Alicia Lockwood had said , " In front of them both , Mr. Crowther , so that they both catch on — I do n't care if it is embarrassing so long as the idea gets into their heads . " |
| 3 | But even as the idea occurred to her , she dismissed it ; from the athletic way Fernand had cleared the rail it was likely that his legs were as strong and muscular as his sinewy arms and he would probably catch her long before she reached the house . |
| 4 | The sadness is the greater as the Act comes at a time when the accumulated wisdom from attempts to improve schools was establishing a consensus on how schools might more effectively meet the needs of all pupils . |
| 5 | But this kind of determinism ( one denying the mediating social role of culture ) is just as misleading as the kind offered by feminists or Marxists . |
| 6 | The analyst can not hope to understand the business as well in a few weeks as the user does after many years . |
| 7 | As soon as the charges came to light earlier this year , the Department 's social services inspectorate carried out an inspection to assess the present quality of child protection in the county 's children 's homes . |
| 8 | He made ‘ Poor Peru/what Scotland 's going/to do to you ’ probably the most regretted ditty ever penned , as the goal proved to be the most stunning beginning of the end . |
| 9 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 10 | As the storm broke over the High Street and a great fork of raw energy stabbed downwards , it struck the very tip of the copper spire of the Old College . |
| 11 | As the storm raged about them , the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort . |
| 12 | But as the lane turned into the metalled road , and Vitor remained mute , she cast him a glance . |
| 13 | We can calculate their relative preference for the Conservatives on the unemployment issue as C/ ( C+L+A ) , that is , as the mark given to the Conservatives expressed as a proportion of the total mark given to all three parties ( or multiplied by 100 to transform it from a proportion into a percentage ) . |
| 14 | One of BRAC 's concerns at present is to see whether the lobon-gur solution has become part of the Bangladeshi culture , in so far as the mothers taught by BRAC 's Oral Therapy Replacement Workers might pass their knowledge down to their children . |
| 15 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 16 | ‘ At first I thought it was a pigeon , but as the feathers went past the window I realised it was something else . ’ |
| 17 | As the story unfolded during questioning it was revealed how Guiding Lights had stayed safe for so long . |
| 18 | As the story unfolds in the immediate aftermath of the 1976 Soweto Uprising , we see how two families , one black and one white , are destroyed — and the black actors are all South Africans themselves rather than US imports . |
| 19 | But if you stop , as the authorities did in Hong Kong , to listen to the opposition , the system will not work . |
| 20 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 21 | Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament . |
| 22 | Ergo , we have to look , I think , at the record of this company over the last few years and as the chairman said in his introductory remarks the growth in the company , the growth in the earnings per share , has been very remarkable . |
| 23 | As the couple returned from their honeymoon to Balmoral , romance was still very much alive . |
| 24 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 25 | Outside , in the clear day , as the couple stood beneath the bell rope , a small box of confetti was thrown . |
| 26 | Mr Hann : ‘ You can still have as simple a system as the tanker going to and from the store , parking up on the headland , connecting up and then injecting . |
| 27 | There are many inspiring sights on the canals and one not to be missed is Tring Summit with its leafy green canopy of tall trees and soft green light reflected from the water as the herons fly through this natural tunnel at twilight . |
| 28 | His disgust mixed with despair as the Germans drove towards him , and the emotions drugged his tired brain . |
| 29 | I quote that not to be complacent and not to say that , in this competitive world , we should not be striving , as the Bills outlined in the Gracious Speech help us to strive , for higher standards . |
| 30 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |