Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 2 | Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals . |
| 3 | If they were now able to hear that story , and be able to make an overall and broad appraisal of that one-time promising religion as it now is , they would be appalled . |
| 4 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 5 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 6 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 7 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 8 | Reasonable foreseeability is always a necessary ingredient of a negligence action as it is required to establish duty of care . |
| 9 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 10 | ( 7 ) Armed with the threat of the above sanctions , the Panel can require a party to take , or omit to take , such action as it considers just to remedy the effects of a breach of the Code . |
| 11 | It 's work like this from the front line of action as it happens , that has provided some of the most spectacular photographs held by one of the world 's largest picture agencies , Popperfoto . |
| 12 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |
| 13 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 14 | The ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome is as prevalent in US military thinking as it is in Britain 's . |
| 15 | The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process . |
| 16 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 17 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 18 | Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic . |
| 19 | All in a flurry of dust it came towards her and then she heard Ferdinando shout her name and the neighing of the horse as it was pulled in and she trembled as she opened her eyes and looked up . |
| 20 | Corbett settled his horse as it fidgeted nervously at the rustling of some animal in the undergrowth at the side of the track . |
| 21 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |
| 22 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 23 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 24 | He spent his time in bed , lying on his left side as it was the only position in which the pain was slightly eased . |
| 25 | Proof that the XM performs just as admirably on the financial side as it does on the road . |
| 26 | On any model , when knitting the neckline , start with the second side of the neck with the carriage on the same side as it was when you started the first side of the neck . |
| 27 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 28 | historical buildings and you just worked with him and you took the exams on the side as it were . |
| 29 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 30 | The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted . |