Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 2 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 3 | Besides its low-profile OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service ( ACAS ) application integration scheme ( UX No 435 ) , it thinks COSE might like Habitat , its technology for allowing an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix SVR4 on its OSF/1 platform ( UX Nos 423 , 436 ) . |
| 4 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 5 | So I mean it , it 's obviously a lot more sort of complicated as it seems on the outside . |
| 6 | It was considerably less straight than that of Sarazen as it clattered into the trees on the right but nevertheless rebounded on to the fairway short of the bunker from where he managed a four . |
| 7 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 8 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 9 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about the United Kingdom trade deficit in 1991 as it applies to food and drink . |
| 10 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 11 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 12 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 13 | In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 14 | A long staircase , wrought-iron painted white , spirals upwards , hides itself in green as it winds into the glass roof . |
| 15 | Later on each of the souls pouring out of Narnia on Doomsday looks at Aslan as it comes through the Door-way of Death — to be saved if it loves , destroyed if it hates . |
| 16 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |