Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 2 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 3 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 4 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 5 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
| 6 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |