Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Africa is in a state of social and political flux as it enters a new non-racial era — yet it is still the favoured venue to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 2 | Thank you , Lord , that you control the work of public and private industry as it affects us day by day , in our homes , in our neighbourhoods , at work . |
| 3 | This facility applies as much , if not more to industrial and commercial buyers as it does to individual consumers . |
| 4 | They have no bridles , the main and only spar is at the extreme leading edge and improved efficiency as it curves in flight . |
| 5 | The effect of the Polish Corridor was to send the East Prussian economy into an abrupt and dizzying nosedive as it lost its traditional markets for beef , grain , timber , fur , sugar-beet and alcohol . |
| 6 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 7 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 8 | The T154 had entered high cloud and severe turbulence as it crossed the Ural mountain range on its journey eastward . |
| 9 | Standard polyurethane foam ignites rapidly , forming dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapour as it does so . |
| 10 | Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded , and other information as it comes to hand . |
| 11 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 12 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |