Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Investment in some technology can be justified as it leads to more efficient billing .
2 Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice .
3 They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence .
4 It matters just as much to a person 's education what he learns and is taught as it matters to his salvation what he believes .
5 We now evaluate the product in reverse order : unc The reader is invited to check that , if B is resolved as it stands into unc then C = unc will also have its last row null , the zero eigenvalue thus repeating .
6 Each case is monitored as it progresses from arrest to final disposal .
7 This is greatest at the point where the main vein , carrying blood from the animal 's body back into its heart , is constricted as it passes through the animal 's chest .
8 Everything from bereavement and marriage to the price of yeast is taken as it comes at these rural meetings .
9 A magnetometer is installed in a down-well tool in a special non-magnetic section of the drill-string , and its output is recorded as it moves along the well .
10 Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking .
11 But his three-second , 89-metre flight ended in disaster when his £700 glider was wrecked as it crashed into the sea .
12 A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak .
13 Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame .
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