Example sentences of "as the [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Centre develops it is hoped that the staff of social work agencies will undertake research projects in conjunction with it . |
| 2 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 3 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 4 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 5 | Urim , ‘ the scattered one ’ , as the locals dub him , has arrived at this ‘ still centre ’ after a lifetime of successive exiles , each spawning a new name , a new self . |
| 6 | Her husband , the old Baron , as the locals call him , died about ten years later . |
| 7 | Then there 's the theatres , ballets , operas and art exhibitions — ‘ Kultur ’ , as the locals call it , is very popular . |
| 8 | We drove to Stuttgart to drop the boss at the airport then spent the rest of the day looking around the ‘ hot pot ’ of the region , as the locals call it . |
| 9 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |
| 10 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 11 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 12 | Family loyalty demands he attempt to rescue his nephew , even if it means , as the story suggests it does , a round trip of between three and four hundred miles . |
| 13 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 14 | I dashed into a record shop , begged a loan of the album , transferred it onto cassette in Dixon 's next door , sped back to the hall and managed to shove it into the system just as the chairman announced it and the audience was standing . |
| 15 | As the couple approached him , George could not hear what remarks were passed but saw the dull flush of anger suffuse the shepherd 's face , as the farmer picked up his wrist and spanned it , passing his hands up the man 's arms to judge his muscles . |
| 16 | According to the map it was there , but the fact that the dwellings seemed half hidden by the trees and were the same colour as the desert gave me a tinge of doubt . |
| 17 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 18 | The sow rattled the bars as the boar nosed her round the pen . |
| 19 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're never too old to rock'n'roll , as the myth has it , but I 've thought I should try something a little more serious than a commercial music station when I move on again . |
| 21 | She heard him shriek in agony as the blade pierced it , cutting through the web of skin between his thumb and index finger . |
| 22 | Sir William Hamilton paid the bills ( as the creditors knew he would ) , and in his will he left her £300 and an annuity of £800 , which should have enabled her to live comfortably though not perhaps ostentatiously . |
| 23 | We realise that as the play develops she is not as ‘ white ’ and good as she wants us to believe . |
| 24 | We can tell this because the light from their stars is reddened , in the same way and for the same reasons as the noise of an ambulance siren or a car engine seems to change pitch downwards as the vehicle passes you . |
| 25 | She gave her answers in a low voice , almost feeling William Ash 's relief as the vicar pronounced them man and wife . |
| 26 | As the door opened he swung his feet from off the bunk and stood . |
| 27 | With no alternative , Maggie waited , and as the door closed he turned to her and regarded her coolly . |
| 28 | There were tears in her eyes that Jenna did not miss , and as the door closed she turned her blue eyes on Alain . |
| 29 | As the child subjected him to a solemn , no-nonsense appraisal , Ashley 's heart began to hammer behind her ribs . |
| 30 | As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered . |