Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 2 | As Vogue stated in a 1920 cruise report , ‘ The Master-At-Arms ' stern duty is to drive late lovers out of the lifeboats . ’ |
| 3 | As Dan noted in his Flight Log , ‘ Took photos of Mary Alice — What a mess ! ’ |
| 4 | Clearly , as artists living in a multi-racial society , the colours in our work will be viewed with varying significance and value . |
| 5 | Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond . |
| 6 | Energy demand is likely to increase by some 90% in the Middle East over the rest of the century as industrialisation continues in the major oil exporters . |
| 7 | As Fitzgerald said in This Side of Paradise , " None of the Victorian mothers had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to being kissed . " |
| 8 | A further consequence is , as Bogdanor states in ‘ Britain : the Political Constitution ’ in Bogdanor , Constitutions in Democratic Politics , p. 56 , that ‘ the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ can not in Britain mean contrary to law ; instead it means contrary to convention , contrary to some understanding of what it is appropriate to do . |
| 9 | The frosts and lack of plant growth will serve to make molehills stand out more , and as moles thrive in light soils , their mounds are a good source of clean local earth for potting up a floral arrangement or a small tree . |
| 10 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 11 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 12 | This should occur not only at the design stage but also as experience develops in operating the plant and data on actual failures and failure rates become available . |
| 13 | But , as Olga said in her letter to me , one weeps more often because one is not free . |
| 14 | ANXIOUS people inundated Darlington police with calls as election canvassing in the town centre almost got out of hand . |
| 15 | They were commonly shown as half-figures carved in relief within a frame . |
| 16 | As Gassendi insists in his Objections to Descartes , there is no need forever to be distrustful of them . |
| 17 | As payment comes in big lumps when the job is finished , income , Gare noted , tends to be uneven . |
| 18 | In particular , Simon Slater as the sarky office cad and Annette Badland as Beryl put in performances far above the level of the sitcom script . |
| 19 | as Younger did in January 1922 , that a coalition could best carry through the policies that Unionists wanted , but by then the main Unionist demands were directed against Labour anyway . |
| 20 | The Office , of course , was in the business of sanctification , but this account of Rolle 's early passionate concern for a life-style which reflected his urgent sense of priorities is heard again later in his Fire of Love : As adolescence dawned in my unhappy youth , present too was the grace of my Maker . |
| 21 | Swaggering is obviously best done in the full-length format , but tempered by the ‘ unique British context of compromise , Protestant seriousness and distrust of display ’ , as Wilton says in his eloquent introduction to the catalogue ( Tate Gallery Publications ) . |
| 22 | I find them extremely depressing but I shall go on slogging away until my term as chairman ends in the early summer . ’ |
| 23 | Accordingly the man in our example may prefer to keep an additional fraction of his income as money balances in excess of his transactions demand , just in case something unexpected happens which necessitates immediate expenditure . |
| 24 | ‘ Better drop it , ’ said Cardiff at last as thunder boomed in the sky and the reception glass lit up again with the flash . |
| 25 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 26 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 27 | They , like most beads , are usually found in female graves , strung with others in a necklace or used as pendants mounted in metal loops . |
| 28 | He normally never wears anything on his head — ’ He broke off as Buckmaster reappeared in the doorway . |
| 29 | On the other hand , as Acheson said in his memoirs , there are limits on the extent to which one may successfully coerce an ally . |
| 30 | As debts mount in his fast-growing Fininvest media group , Italy 's Silvio Berlusconi is getting ready for a big stockmarket flotation of the group 's publishing businesses , to raise capital . |