Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] is [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A variety of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin , Sousa chinensis , is being threatened with extinction by the construction of Hong Kong 's new airport , just as it is being recognized as a distinct species . |
| 2 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 3 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 4 | To carry out participant observation into the minutiae of police practice might be theoretically approved in any statement made for general consumption , but in the cold light of institutional reality it will most likely be thwarted or subverted even as it is being agreed . |
| 5 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |