Example sentences of "[noun] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bill Lawrence , his eyes gleaming with the hunting passion , pounced on the fragments of encrusted ceramic and bone that were left behind in the police sieves , and Gus industriously entered their location in his graph , and sketched in each layer of masonry as it emerged . |
| 32 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 33 | Deftly he dissected each cranial nerve as it appeared , cut through the detaining tentorium then reached down low beyond the foramen magnum to divide the spinal cord . |
| 34 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 35 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 36 | as if this were not bad enough , the great mudflow rolled on into the sea at the mouth of the Riviere Blanche , setting up a series of waves as it did so , one of which was powerful enough to capsize the yacht Precheur moored off the river mouth . |
| 37 | The appeal to doctrines of reincarnation is an almost essential fall-back as it shifts the burden of full responsibility from our shoulders . |
| 38 | When plants are cleared from an ecosystem effects animals as it reduces their food resources and thereby creating competition and by sometimes cutting down their shelter and natural habitat forcing them to move to areas where they ca n't survive . |
| 39 | Tenderly he wiped its mouth and nostrils and eyes as it coughed into life , vomiting saline nutrient over his hands . |
| 40 | In occasional clearings the American boys caught sight of slender natives in conical , palm-leaf hats bending over fishing lines or snares for river fowl , but they rarely looked up ; only the naked , potbellied children paid any attention , staring at the Avignon with brown , expressionless eyes as it swung past the low banks on which they stood . |
| 41 | Donna closed her eyes as it climbed through turbulence . |
| 42 | One of the most bizarre examples of this ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ occurred ( under my own eyes as it happened ) at the London School of Economics during one of the frequent student occupations . |
| 43 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 44 | Whether it would be able to survive in the new , more competitive , environment and obtain as much advertising revenue as it does now is far from clear . |
| 45 | Lord Justice Higgins ' widow , Bridget , daughters , Mary , Lucy and Cait , and sons John and Matthew , led the cortege as it left the church for burial at Milltown Cemetery in Magherafelt . |
| 46 | The messenger moved so fast that Huy barely saw the club as it swung through the air at his throat . |
| 47 | ‘ They 're really going to come after us now , ’ said Billie , pinned to the seat as it accelerated through the corners . |
| 48 | Barnett remembered the heat in the blood as it welled around the hilt of the knife and onto his hand . |
| 49 | Donna tasted her own blood as it ran into her mouth from the cut on her lip . |
| 50 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 51 | ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’ |
| 52 | He could feel the blood as it pounded there . |
| 53 | The first stanza of the poem concentrates on a small incident and is specific about the power of the sun to wake up the dead soldier as it used to when he slept in a field . |
| 54 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
| 55 | A man has been killed after riding on the boot of a car as it drove across a seaside caravan site . |
| 56 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
| 57 | Officers saw the car as it went through a red light in Chester Road , Birmingham , at about 3 am . |
| 58 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 59 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 60 | We drove across it and through an arch where a conscript in a shabby uniform saluted the car as it passed . |