Example sentences of "and [adj] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason , a pulse is given as the wire enters and another as it leaves ! |
| 2 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 3 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 4 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 5 | The second revised ending though gives Estella a complete character change and seems to leave everything a bit too perfect and predictable as it ends more like a ‘ Mills and Boon ’ love story with |
| 6 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
| 7 | The flesh turns spongy and tender as it cooks ; tastes like a cross between a cucumber and courgette . |
| 8 | Barter is clearly inefficient and troublesome as it requires a ‘ double coincidence of wants ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll know if you 've got it because it is very painful , your mouth fills with ulcers and the flesh between your teeth becomes puffy and ragged as it rots . |
| 10 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 11 | Here , beyond the gardens of the lodge and the woods and ornamental ponds , the loch narrows and becomes a river again , bending and funnelling and quickening as it heads towards the rocks and falls and the shallow gorge beyond . |
| 12 | A bat approaching a moth will sound louder and louder as it comes close , and the moth is sensitive to loudness . |