Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations with the unions are just beginning as to how the blow will fall . |
| 2 | Yeah , but they 're also forgetting as well it is n't just the maintenance that it 's a long term commitment to paying |
| 3 | Erm , so volume has been gradually growing as the year progresses and erm , and more so in the last erm , the last say six weeks of the er , of the half year . |
| 4 | Followers are still guessing as to what Hanson will do with its ICI stake . |
| 5 | Back in the power pack repair bay , Corporal Tait and his crew are still working as first the civilians and then the soldiers finish their day 's tasks and return home . |
| 6 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 7 | Pa and Ms are both snoring as I watch the yellow dustcart reverse up our track . |
| 8 | All of the women who have told their stories so bravely are now meeting as ‘ survivors ’ . |
| 9 | Salerooms are at pains to point out that such paintings are now fetching as high or higher prices than ever . |
| 10 | Its pictures should be artistically entrancing as well . |
| 11 | Indeed , if we take that conversation , as it unfolds , as constantly changing and renewing its own context , then the relationship just described must be constantly changing as well . |
| 12 | ‘ No such luck , I 'm just working as usual . ’ |
| 13 | The Spider Software unit of Spider Systems Ltd up in Edinburgh will be quietly cheering as Microsoft Corp launches Windows NT at Comdex this week : its SpiderTCP TCP/IP protocol is included in NT and Microsoft is also using SpiderStreams as the environment for running parallel protocol drivers ; the Scottish firm says it won the contract after Microsoft put the communications work out to international tender . |
| 14 | The crowd of villagers seemed to be standing round a patch of earth from which the thin , naked arms of a young girl were desperately waving as the screams continued . |
| 15 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 16 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 17 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 18 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 19 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 20 | Douglas and Ramsay drove through the throng , to where the Regent and Leslie were still conferring as to what to do now . |
| 21 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 22 | They were practically cheering as they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill . |
| 23 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 24 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 25 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 26 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 27 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 28 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 29 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 30 | Martin Knapp ( 1993 ) has summarized the dimensions along which reform is concurrently progressing as moving from supply-led to needs-led services ; from an emphasis on institutions to a reduced emphasis on institutions ; from a public welfare model to a mixed economy ; and a movement from health service to local authority provision . |