Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 2 | That is the bit to destroy as it is stopping the development of the picture . |
| 3 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 4 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 5 | The sickle slowed as it approached , and she imagined the biker licking his lips inside his helmet , anticipating a tasty morsel . |
| 6 | The story ends as it began , with a boy of seventeen rescued from an inflatable life-raft in a confused , incoherent state . |
| 7 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 8 | And the wish keeps the illusion going as it were . |
| 9 | In the North , protestant loyalists accuse catholic nationalists of not accepting the rights of the majority in the statelet to govern as it sees fit . |
| 10 | A man and woman in the car died as it was crushed under the lorry . |
| 11 | The car protested as it settled into muddy pools , heaved itself out , scraped through fields of boulders and crossed innumerable rickety bamboo bridges . |
| 12 | And the programme ended as it dropped onto the fire to a chorus from the rest of Alf 's family of ‘ unclean , unclean ’ . |
| 13 | The primary radar return from the aircraft faded as it turned left on to base leg at 1229:16 hrs . |
| 14 | Why is the deal structured as it is ? |
| 15 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 16 | Suddenly the boat dipped as it hit a swell and she staggered , cannoning heavily against Luke before reeling towards the rail . |
| 17 | The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) . |
| 18 | While the first Arts Minister , Jenny Lee , boasted of handing cash to the council to spend as it wished , the ‘ arm 's length principle ’ was progressively eroded by later ministers who earmarked grants for government approved schemes ( The Art Newspaper , No.17 , April 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 19 | How important this single factor is in maintaining traditional agricultural management in the French uplands is impossible to estimate but , if the proposal remains as it is , more small French farms in the LFA may intensify for the first time . |
| 20 | Gloucester 's first match was home to the Wasps.It finished as it started , all square . |
| 21 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 22 | To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature : at the Passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock , the holly whistles as it battles with itself , the ash hisses amid its quiverings , the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall … |
| 23 | And I think that 's where the danger comes as it 's a sort of acceptable thing to say ! |
| 24 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 25 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 26 | The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing . |
| 27 | In the present case we think that there was sufficient consideration for the notes in the compromise made as it was . |
| 28 | But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer . |
| 29 | The day ended as it had begun with a win for Carl Fogarty , with Robert Dunlop getting his hat-trick , and Jim Moodie , making it only three winners for the seven races . |
| 30 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |