Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] as it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Dietary fibre is a sponge-like material which absorbs and holds water as it is chewed in the mouth and passes down the gastro-intestinal tract .
2 His first priority will be to find players as it is understood that several of last season 's side want to leave .
3 ( iv ) Development of oesophageal ulceration after emergency sclerotherapy delayed randomisation as it was felt that its pressure would increase the hazards of oesophageal transection in patients randomised to this arm of the trial .
4 Reorganize the file at intervals — unless a randomization technique that allocates space as it is required has been used .
5 But it takes shape as it is woven .
6 As he walked with his brothers , Angel felt that , however lucky they were to have a university education , neither of them really saw life as it was lived .
7 Because people refused — and still do refuse — to live life as it was meant to be lived , in happy friendship and obedience to God , evil is present , not only in our world , but within us all .
8 It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written .
9 Siemens has licensed SoftBench as it is incorporated in the Toolbus environment from Informix ; Encapsulator , a tool for adding software products to the SoftBench and Toolbus environment for integration of tools supplied by independent software vendors or users ; and the C++ Developer software construction and browsing tool used for object-oriented programming in C++ .
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