Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the barriers were back in place , as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all . |
| 2 | Her voice , as usual when talking to Michael , was strained . |
| 3 | Father and son , he reported , kissed each other as usual and went to sleep in their separate bivouacs . |
| 4 | I came in by the south door as usual and locked both it and the door in the grille after me . |
| 5 | One Saturday , late in June , in the last year of the war , Ackroyd had passed the 5.13 through as usual and received the 5.29 from Chorley and seen it in . |
| 6 | The Monday 's carnival procession will leave the Butts Green as usual and proceed through the town to Anstey Park , where the entertainment is expected to be bigger and better than ever . |
| 7 | Cleanse your face as usual and take off any residue with toner . |
| 8 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 9 | I was leaving all that to Posi , as usual and paying more attention to the lateral and reverse ceptor screens around the control area . |
| 10 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 11 | As has been suggested , ‘ prejudice ’ , as an everyday concept , as well as a social-scientific one , represents a strong cultural value : even racist theorists of a fascist party appear to wish to avoid being labelled as prejudiced and do not care to think of themselves as prejudiced . |
| 12 | In public the actions of the Emperor and his court were governed by a rigid code of courtliness , as subtle and elaborate as the interlaced borders the Mughal artists painted around their miniatures . |
| 13 | This could be interpreted as weak and lacking authority ; it could equally be interpreted as polite and considerate . |
| 14 | Some of these are recognized as regional and have been studied as such ( for example in Wakelin and Barry , 1968 , a study of the voicing of initial fricatives in South-west England ) : others are more widespread in English . |
| 15 | Japanese office workers were found to blink only one-third as often as normal when watching their computers , according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine . |
| 16 | Simon will be attending the Fair as normal and intends to arrive on Wednesday morning ( 11/10 ) , departing Saturday morning ( 14/10 ) . |
| 17 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 18 | The company has turned its nose up at EISA as unnecessary and used its own high-speed local bus . |
| 19 | The latter sample is the same as that since confirmed by Dr Brewer as being asbestos . ’ |
| 20 | It was sometimes described as Congregationalist and sometimes as Baptist and did not insist on adult baptism . |
| 21 | If we take the 32.9% found in Franks 's study as representative and compare this prevalence figure with the yearly mortality in the European Community — 22.6/100000 — this suggests that only one in 1456 patients would die of prostate cancer . |
| 22 | In his important best-selling book The End of Nature , the American writer Bill McKibben argues that nature holds other crucial , non-material values for us , and that with the onset of man-made global warming and the spread of genetic engineering , ‘ our sense of nature as eternal and separate will be washed away . ’ |
| 23 | The radial shields are irregularly tear drop shaped about twice as long as broad and separated along their entire length . |
| 24 | The radial shields are about 3 times as long as broad and separated even in smaller specimens . |
| 25 | The family Ophiolepidinae can be distinguished by : both oral tentacle pores arising within the mouth ; the plating of the disk is usually conspicuous with large plates ; and the shape of the dental plates which is twice as long as broad and rounded at both ends ( Murakami , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | The physical characteristics of blacks in America were traditionally defined as undesirable and associated with a range of negative qualities . |
| 27 | It is only through the work of Christ , through the impact on us of what he has done , that we can recognise him as divine and describe his person in divine terms . |
| 28 | The alliance , whether viewed as divine or malign , was formally enshrined in the School Certificate examination defined in 1917 . |
| 29 | The macroscopic aspect of the stomach is described as atrophic or having a cobble stone aspect . |
| 30 | Classical acting is really quite a recent thing for me so it 's a case of speaking the verse as naturally as possible but observing it ‘ s rhythms and structure . |