Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These considerations hold out some hope that , while the problem of maintaining lead times will remain serious , it will remain a manageable problem , much as it has in the past . |
| 2 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 3 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 4 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 5 | The Act requires the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on numerous aspects of drift-net fishing in the North Pacific , especially as it relates to the marine resources of the US . |
| 6 | Their view that the less the state interferes with the market , the better for everyone is a totally different argument , especially as it applies to the developing countries . |
| 7 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 8 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 9 | Bodily discomfort , added to the anger that still bubbled unpleasantly inside him , had the effect of clarifying his mind , just as it had on the day of the press conference . |
| 10 | The neurosis of humanity arose out of the relation to the father , just as it does for the child . |
| 11 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |
| 12 | It began to matter to Philip that Richard was a ‘ natural ’ : just as it mattered to the boy himself . |
| 13 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 14 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 15 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , in a markedly more muted way , softness , where strength was expected , provoked ‘ messing about ’ , just as it did in the cycles of violent retribution described by our other informants . |
| 17 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |
| 18 | His picture adorns the lockers on the shop-floor just as it beckons from the shop-fronts of Prague . |
| 19 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 20 | He sat and watched the quill being borne along by the current and then leaning over as it tugged at the end of the swim . |
| 21 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 22 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 23 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 24 | I imagine you have to secure one of these as soon as it comes on the market . ’ |
| 25 | These damned black marketeers are everywhere ; they siphon the stuff off as soon as it comes into the country , at the various stores and again at the local distribution points . |
| 26 | That helps them then deal with a call as soon as it comes into the switchboard . |
| 27 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 28 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 29 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 30 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |