Example sentences of "[verb] as it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It overflows into a 3″ diameter down tube where the water is re-oxygenated as it enters the main tank . |
| 2 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 3 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 4 | Even if it is not a must , it is often worth applying as it helps the marker do a better job , in particular because he can use electronic tools to provide data that will aid his judgement . |
| 5 | The names and addresses of these bureaux are listed in Appendix I. A Green Card furnished at frontiers ensures smooth passage establishing as it does the existence of a country 's compulsory motor insurance . |
| 6 | This essentially empirical question is very difficult to answer as it raises a whole host of conceptual , theoretical and practical difficulties that are only partially resolvable . |
| 7 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
| 8 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 9 | Arguably , this public proclamation of secretarian communist beliefs during the election campaign , alerting as it did the bourgeois authorities to the subversive political activities of this " Red Messiah " , and resulting in Nizan 's transfer to Auch , precipitated his decision to become a fully integrated member of the PCF . |
| 10 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 11 | What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address . |
| 12 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 13 | The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management . |
| 14 | The latter site could be something of a watershed , possessing as it does an example of a type B arrangement , one of the earliest examples of star-like squares enclosed by a circle , a saltire design , and a simple geometric meander ( pI . |
| 15 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 16 | The transition from the glass to the rubber-like state is an important feature of polymer behaviour , marking as it does a region where dramatic changes in the physical properties , such as hardness and elasticity , are observed . |
| 17 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 18 | For the first time during Morse 's analysis , his audience was seen reluctantly to smile as it acknowledged the primacy of the perpetually belly-aching little lady from California . |
| 19 | Where the lawn narrowed as it skirted the side of the elegant house , it was traversed by a high lattice fence complete with ornate archway . |
| 20 | Religion was important here , inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works . |
| 21 | In the sculpture it is difficult to determine what stage of metamorphosis this shape-changer has reached as it fits no equivalent passage in the poem . |
| 22 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 23 | In this context , in a more general sense , a return to a more convergent exchange rate policy within Europe , providing as it does a background of stability to encourage exporters , would be welcomed again at some stage in the future . |
| 24 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 25 | The A.832 continues forward , rising as it crosses a bare and uninteresting moorland , any feeling of desolation being relieved by the sight of the Summer Isles and Coigach across the open sea . |
| 26 | R. centifolia is also called the ‘ Painters ’ Rose' as it became a favourite still life subject with French and English painters . |
| 27 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 28 | Tolby flinched as it touched the skin . |
| 29 | It is then in the ideal position to attack from below.As the kite is pulled up , so the line is fast moving as it contacts the victim 's line and tension quickly severs the strands . |
| 30 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |