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

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1 It may not be adjusted or working correctly or as it is operated by water temperature , it may be air locked .
2 And as it is buffeted by ultraviolet radiation , so it absorbs it ; and thus prevents the most harmful , high energy , high-frequency radiation known as UVB , from reaching the Earth .
3 There are those who argue that ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ as it exists and as it is proposed by Commissions of Inquiry and certain trade unions , is a dangerous diversion .
4 He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings .
5 A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition .
6 In The Rape of Lucrece Tarquin , unable to restrain his lust , and as it were possessed by the spirit of the boar , violates the chaste Lucrece , a devotee of the goddess in her virgin mode as Diana .
7 Croll failed in arithmetic but as it was acknowledged by Lord Kelvin that he had calculated the precession of the equinoxes over the last 10 million years , his mathematical ability was accepted .
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