Example sentences of "as [pers pn] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are commemorated by a plaque on the alms-houses at nearby Burraton Combe , given in 1726 by James Buller ‘ … whose glorious memory as well as illustrious favours ought not to be forgotten but kept , as t is hoped they will be , in everlasting remembrance . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 3 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you , but my maid will do so ; she is drinking tea in the servants ’ quarters , and will come as soon as she is sent for . ’ |
| 5 | Japlish As She Is Wrote |
| 6 | ARTscribble ( as she is wrote ) |
| 7 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 8 | life as it is lived , English as she is spoken . |
| 9 | Imagine how you would fare if you were learning English as she is spoke in Oxford and met a Geordie . |
| 10 | The devout and thankfully expressive countenance of the wife and mother is too admirably depicted to be overlooked or mistaken by anyone as she is occupied with those two most delightful of maternal duties , suckling her infant and teaching her child to pray to God . |
| 11 | Model Carla 's dash as she is linked to Mick … |
| 12 | I myself prefer Mrs. Proudie out of the three , but Madeline I also find interesting and thought-provoking while Mrs. Crawley seems the most boring as she is admired by everybody and does nothing wrong , which is very dull but does provide contrast . |
| 13 | If your hard disk is a short of space , you may have no option but to print , but most people will have the space to save a fax as it is received , thus saving paper if it 's one they do n't need to print . |
| 14 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 15 | Megarry J in Spens v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 276 at p285 stated : … where a trustee who receives income from investments holds those investments on trust for a life tenant , each sum received by the trustees is for surtax purposes the income of the life tenant as soon as it is received , for it is forthwith under the life tenant 's control . |
| 16 | In businesses such as McDonalds where service provision is undertaken by relatively junior staff remote from the centre , very particular attention is paid to quality control procedures as it is realized that lapses of quality or service may have a devastating effect on public confidence and attitudes . |
| 17 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 18 | One rôle of this pipe is to provide an unobstructed path for water in the cylinder to expand as it is heated . |
| 19 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 20 | Glass , like toffee , has no sharp melting point but changes gradually , as it is heated , from a brittle solid to a viscous liquid and during this process there is no important change of molecular structure . |
| 21 | Hot water storage systems are ‘ vented ’ to allow any steam to escape if the system overheats and the cistern accommodates expansion of the water as it is heated . |
| 22 | Water that is above 4°C expands as it is warmed , like any other material . |
| 23 | An understanding of technology as it is applied in the design , development and management of consumer goods and services is developed . |
| 24 | The aims of Reflexology are : to relax stress and tension , the cause of approximately 75% of today 's diseases and ailments ; to relieve blocked nerve impulses that end in the feet , to improve circulation , for it is at the feet that the blood , as it is pumped around the body , changes direction . |
| 25 | In this case , the physiotherapist gives the sole of the foot gently graded stretching as it is placed to the floor . |
| 26 | We are trying to suggest here that academic enterprise may be useful as long as it is placed in its proper social context . |
| 27 | Propane alone requires stronger , and therefore heavier , containers as it is stored at higher pressure . |
| 28 | In reality , it is to introduce as a solution a concept which itself poses a theoretical problem , for as it is adopted and understood it is an uncriticized concept , a concept which , like all ‘ obvious ’ concepts , threatens to have for theoretical content no more than the function that the existing or dominant ideology defines for it . |
| 29 | From September 1990 parents , and in some cases the pupils themselves , have a right to see the record in so far as it is made after 31 August 1989 . |
| 30 | It can take a great deal of courage and confidence to challenge colleagues in this way , but as you will see by studying the Code itself , the definition and standards of conduct required are clear and unequivocal , even if putting them into practice is not always as easy as it is made to sound . |