Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [conj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sunlight is strong and as the water gets nearer the bright blue of the sky has less and less effect on the colours of the gravel bed and waving weeds until at the bottom of the picture you can see straight down into the clear water . |
| 2 | Second , it is possible that as the mass of the planet built up the volatiles were captured as gases from the planetary formation medium ( PFM ) by the gravitational field of the ( growing ) planet . |
| 3 | Intimacy is risky because as the other person discovers our weaknesses they could exploit them . |
| 4 | The percentage shareholding necessary to give control is problematical since as the degree of dispersal increases effective control can be exercised with a decreasing proportion of the votes , and certainly with considerably less than the 50 per cent required for a member or members to have the right to remove the board . |
| 5 | We will still have the ability to carry today 's weapons such as the the L seven five five cluster bomb unit , the thousand pound bomb erm and the C R V seven rocket and things like that but clearly as we move forward into the century it 's important that as the platform progresses then so does the aircraft . |
| 6 | It 's vital that as the economy improves we find ways to enable long term unemployed people to compete positively for jobs . |
| 7 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |