Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as it " in BNC.

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1 It will need renewing every seven years or so as it is not long-lived .
2 Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ?
3 Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours .
4 But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ?
5 The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 .
6 His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball .
7 Similarly , the Andante ‘ on an old German Minnelied ’ does not move along as freely and naturally as it should and so loses something of its song quality .
8 I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked .
9 And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration .
10 Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another .
11 Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual .
12 The suppression of vice is therefore , Lord Devlin argues , just as important as the suppression of subversive activities , and just as it is impossible to point to an area of morality which should not be subject to the law , so there is no area of morality which can be described as ‘ private ’ .
13 And just as it has been designed to satisfy their requirements ( not always necessarily with equal success ) , they come to find themselves serving its interests .
14 Halfway through the final allegro the world came into existence again , as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone .
15 She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home .
16 Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households .
17 But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him .
18 Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep .
19 He sat on the cutting machine and and then as it come on to the Ah but what do you call the long thing ?
20 No shaved from there back and then as it is at the moment in the front .
21 Rousettus clicks its tongue loudly and rhythmically as it flies , and navigates by measuring the time interval between each click and its echo .
22 Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education .
23 He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him .
24 The crush bolt made a dragging , trailing sound across the floor , once to open and again as it closed .
25 I know I should n't have said it but soon as it come out me mouth
26 The expected train eventually arrived , but just as it approached , one channel of the recorder inexplicably failed , ruining the recording .
27 But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection .
28 After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day .
29 There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in .
30 The Guinness takeover of Distillers is studied , not just as an example of a keenly contested takeover , but also as it demonstrated what many saw as the unacceptable sides of takeover activity and the City of London .
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