Example sentences of "as we [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 2 | In winter plumage ( as we mostly see them in Shetland ) they are brown waders with a ‘ scaly ’ appearance , a little larger than redshank . |
| 3 | 1991 might be a year well-spent after all as we finally come to pay such a meaningful tribute to Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett and O'Casey . |
| 4 | Rather than as we probably do at the minute , is you may go back and have a staff meeting |
| 5 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 6 | In other words you agree with the customer , right , now take my words , you wan na think it over , right , we 're not prepared to give you a decision tonight , eh , now I 'd say something like , well that 's understandable , and we 've gone through as many things and debt this evening as we probably need to go through , do n't you agree ? |
| 7 | And that is why — now that human dominion is seen perhaps to be rather too complete , as we progressively eliminate the natural world on which our very survival depends — meat is now falling out of fashion . |
| 8 | Because of these measures , we are confident that we will weather today 's hostile economic conditions and that , as we progressively meet our targets , the company will be in good shape to prosper . |
| 9 | Who protects them as we increasingly emphasise the difficulties of caring ? |
| 10 | As we fast approach the end of the first section of the calendar , it is time to gather information for the July — December section . |
| 11 | The Professor of Literature in a University should be — and sometimes is , as we gladly recognise — a missionary in a more real and active sense than any of his colleagues . |
| 12 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 13 | As we already know , Mrs Wormwood 's hair was dyed a brilliant platinum blonde , very much the same glistening silvery colour as a female tightrope-walker 's tights in a circus . |
| 14 | His own proposal of name had been the " National Society of the Deaf " , but , as we already know , he was overruled . |
| 15 | PLEASE — can we all use this as a selling aid as we desperately need to increase our membership and this just might help us all to find new members as well as encourage existing ones to re-enrol . |
| 16 | PLEASE — can we all use this as a selling aid as we desperately need to increase our membership and this just might help us all to find new members as well as encourage existing ones to re-enrol . |
| 17 | Designed for glide ratio rather than aerobatics , the paragliders nevertheless can teach the foil-kite designer something , just as we strongly suspect they in turn , had already learned from the Flexifoil . |
| 18 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 19 | Not only does it not produce much wheat , as we well know , but , in fact , it is not creating as much energy output as energy input going in to the system . |
| 20 | They will be demonstrating , in other words , the continuing process of adaptation and adjustment without which , as we well know from observation , teaching can easily stagnate into a set of half-understood routines , performed irrespective of the conditions of the class or the needs of the learners . |
| 21 | But it is really not for him to argue the case about taxes because , as we well know — Opposition Members do not like that . |
| 22 | ‘ They already have Rogers said , ‘ as we well know . ’ |
| 23 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 24 | as long as we just pay for the |
| 25 | But at other times , as we also know , people can be remarkably altruistic and committed to others . |
| 26 | ‘ Forgive us our debts as we also forgive those that are indebted to us . ’ |
| 27 | In the Lord 's prayer , he teaches us to pray , ‘ Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors ’ ( Matt. 6:12 ) . |
| 28 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 29 | It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up . |
| 30 | This was unusual as we normally have a better record of reliability than that . ’ |