Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 2 | Share research as it starts and whenever there is something to say by contacting SCRE Information Services . |
| 3 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 4 | The Japanese like to negotiate each issue as it arises and there is an assumption that each party is prepared to make substantial accommodations to the other . |
| 5 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 6 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 7 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 8 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 9 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 10 | Zimerman 's , in particular , provides a memorably crystalline and trenchant communication of the score as it stands and his recording is surely among the most nobly austere , powerful and unadorned . |
| 11 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 12 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 13 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 15 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 16 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 17 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 18 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Japan is two-thirds wooded but imports half her pulp , and the United States grows half as much again timber as it needs and could easily become self-sufficient in hardwoods . |
| 20 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 21 | The sound of his breath as it sawed and whistled in his throat mingled with the rush and whicker of wind among the trees . |
| 22 | In this — his last — introduction Dicey sought to ‘ compare our constitution as it stood and worked in 1884 with the constitution as it now stands in 1914 ’ His views are illuminating . |
| 23 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 24 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 25 | But he would then be treating the past as evidence of present attitudes and convictions , not as important for its own sake , and he would lose interest in the past as it aged and was therefore of less evidential value . |
| 26 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 27 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |
| 28 | So we can often distinguish between people who live their life as it happens and those who run their lives . |
| 29 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 30 | and the moon starts coming across the sky as it does and it gets in the way of the sun . |