Example sentences of "[adv] as it " in BNC.
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1 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
2 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
3 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
4 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
5 | In Burke 's view , which was orthodox in his time , this was entirely as it should be . |
6 | to see it entirely as it never is , |
7 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
8 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
9 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
10 | As suddenly as it began , the rain ceased . |
11 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
12 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
13 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
14 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
15 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
16 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
17 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
18 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
19 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
20 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
21 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
22 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
23 | As suddenly as it was there it was gone again , retracted back into the body of the stick . |
24 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
25 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
26 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
27 | The rain stops as suddenly as it came . |
28 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
29 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
30 | The question , coming suddenly as it did , caught Tam unguarded . |