Example sentences of "as [adj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 2 | On the first night Rose Lipman came backstage as usual to wish the cast good luck . |
| 3 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 4 | Underneath the veneer of participatory management , it is business as usual — and business as usual represents a threat to America 's long-term capacity to compete . |
| 5 | ‘ He called round as usual to collect the interest . |
| 6 | ‘ In the year ahead , sales of gilts will as usual form the bedrock of the funding programme . |
| 7 | He was highly intelligent , observant and questioning , a joy to the first-class teacher and a pest to the second-rate , who as usual formed the majority . |
| 8 | John as usual attended the opening night . |
| 9 | However the East Antrim Club will as usual have a strong representation on the water and making a return to competitive GP14 action on Lough Erne will be Curly Morris . |
| 10 | The usual high-spirited Artisans ' Dinner was held with Bill as usual leading the singing with ‘ Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 11 | Garry as usual did the talking . |
| 12 | On the publishing side , which as usual outnumbered the booksellers by a good measure , there was a rash of thrusting marketing types along with the usual grey suits and sales people , so one could say that the publishers had got it more or less right . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the afternoon Crane riding ahead as usual reported a smoke signal some miles to the west in the direction they were going . |
| 14 | The likely shape of the leadership contest emerged yesterday as Labour began an inquest on its election defeat . |
| 15 | The results were announced as Labour predicted the ‘ wasted generation ’ of jobless people under 25 would approach the one million mark next year . |
| 16 | The warning came yesterday as Labour dismissed the announcement by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , of a £500 million rise in Scottish Office expenditure . |
| 17 | Resolve damage as normal using the ‘ To Wound ’ chart . |
| 18 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 19 | If no conditions remain to be fulfilled or consents obtained , completion is likely to be simultaneous , as that avoids the difficulties inherent in carrying on business pending completion . |
| 20 | We ca n't just inflict heavy penalties , however , as that drives the whole business underground , as in the Mediterranean countries . |
| 21 | Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs . |
| 22 | The alternative way of pricing the TB is to substitute this yield into the present value formula ( 4.7 ) to give exactly the same issue price ( 97.51 ) as that using the discount rate formula ( 4.9 ) . |
| 23 | and below the EC average , as that provides the sort of background against which businesses can expand and export abroad . |
| 24 | So in so far as that affects the confession it may mean that it could be removed but that 's really completely irrelevant to you because erm that 's his confession , not evidence against him . |
| 25 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 26 | Aspects of both the suggested hypotheses were supported as each showed a result in its favour and thus the exact mechanism for adaptation was not determined . |
| 27 | Referring to instances of discourse types as infelicitous raises the issue of the relationship of these terms to speech acts and language functions ( see 3.11 ) . |
| 28 | But if phonemic competitors are included , some means of resolving the phonemes identity and filtering out improbable words must be applied as quickly as possible to stop the proliferation of word strings . |
| 29 | It 's easy to criticize but when an audience grows to this size , there is the responsibility of allowing as many fans as possible to see the shows . |
| 30 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |