Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's our business , taking risks , and it works well enough — as long as everyone plays by the rules . ’ |
| 2 | The end-product , as everyone knows from all the projections and mock-ups they keep making public to try to justify the wildly escalating costs , will have two arms and two legs , a language capability , and a fairly sophisticated emotional and moral response . |
| 3 | It is important that the client 's first task is one in which success is highly probable , as nothing succeeds like success in this way of working . |
| 4 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 5 | It would also allow me to experiment as much as I likes with the interesting colours of the Winsor & Newton Artists ' Acrylic Colour range and with some of the techniques that are particularly well suited to the acrylic medium . |
| 6 | I seen 'im look very confident at the non-striker 's end , I grant yer , but that 'as n't won too many matches as I knows of . |
| 7 | A British atom does not wave a union jack as its explodes in a mixture of fissile atoms . |
| 8 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 9 | In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently . |
| 10 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 11 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 12 | Selina fulls in and out of love with these two , as she does with Helle . |
| 13 | Yes , I wish Rachel would look at me as she does at you . ’ |
| 14 | and Angela happens to be sleeping over as she does at her job |
| 15 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 16 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 17 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 18 | When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole . |
| 19 | As I pass , I see the girl with glasses as she sits in her bed ; her spectacled eyes flashing bulbs on the screen . |
| 20 | However , I can give my hon. Friend the undertaking that as long as she remains in the House such research will not be the Cinderella of the health service . |
| 21 | Portia has control over her men because of her power and beauty , and even over the whole judicial system , as she proves towards the end of the play . |
| 22 | So I sit docile above her , upright and male , unresisting as she delves with her hand . |
| 23 | Pray that Donna will know God 's anointing on her life as she goes to Sydney , Australia for DTS , and the support of her Christian family . |
| 24 | As she goes into the election , she will be helped by the stronger economy . |
| 25 | All eyes will be on Vina Buller today as she goes into the final showjumping phase in the lead of the National Championship sponsored by Heineken at Punchestown in Co Kildare . |
| 26 | This gives you a head start , and if you are sensitive to her changing needs as she goes through the grief experience you will learn your role and recognise your cues as you go along . |
| 27 | She is offered a lift by a Black man , and as she gazes at the countryside slipping by , she reminisces about her childhood . |
| 28 | More fac more factual than er er as she gazes at her , you know , her two kiddies playing |
| 29 | ‘ About 30,000 fans will see her as she travels around the country . |
| 30 | As she describes in her book , she was an adolescent girl coming to grips with growing up and kicking against conventions ‘ but only in this rather middle-class way . |