Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as it plays I suppose . |
| 2 | Just do n't mention that person , as it hurts me to think about him . ’ |
| 3 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 4 | Some nurses are very enthusiastic about the bank as a route of re-entry , as it enables you to sample different wards and departments and introduces you to new people . |
| 5 | Avoiding mixtures is a good idea at first as it enables you to identify any foods which disagree with your baby to try again later . |
| 6 | ‘ This facility is considerably time-saving for the team as it enables us to make experimental changes on screen , before on-site implementation , which is clearly more cost effective at the planning stages , ’ explained Phil . |
| 7 | ‘ The achievement has important implications for the region as it enables us to look at economic development in a European context . |
| 8 | Repeating the verbal descriptions is specially important for the patient with perceptual and speech difficulties , as it helps him to become familiar with the planning needed for each item of clothing . |
| 9 | Some women find a cup of strong coffee every hour or so helpful , as it helps them pass more water . |
| 10 | This is particularly important for elementary students as it helps them keep pace with the programme and therefore gives them confidence in their ability to cope with longer stretches of language . |
| 11 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 12 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 13 | ‘ As it opens it triggers air inflation bags underneath the cockpit capsule to soften the landing and reduces landing shock to the crew . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , as long as it thinks it controls . |
| 15 | Rain is naturally acid , with a pH of around 5.6 ; as it falls it picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , which dissolves to form carbonic acid . |
| 16 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 17 | This simple observation is crucial to the argument of this chapter , as it allows us to question ingrained assumptions concerning the superiority and greater significance of language over other forms of expression . |
| 18 | As strategic proposals emerge , each subsystem will evaluate them against developments in other subsystems , in so far as it perceives them to affect it too . |
| 19 | William Golding 's book Lord of the Flies was to me an apt exercise in male self-disclosure , chronicling as it does what happens when the civilizing female influence is removed from the life of the male . |
| 20 | As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it . |
| 21 | As it happens we got that shipment delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off . |
| 22 | As it happens it rained after lunch so the test match with Auntie was cancelled . |
| 23 | A trick question : as it happens it appears on a sort of in-between track . |
| 24 | They were lies , but as it happens I had met him before . |
| 25 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 26 | As it happens I know a man in London who can handle the operation there for you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ As it happens I do . ’ |
| 28 | The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems . |
| 29 | As it passes I turn and watch it enter Hadley Wood South tunnel . |
| 30 | But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise . |