Example sentences of "[verb] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 2 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 3 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 4 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 5 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 6 | His voice cracked as it rose in pitch . |
| 7 | Dulé stalked the ladder again , and circled it , turning it with him as he paced ; again he bowed to his adversary , again he placed a foot on the lowest rung as it stood up held light by his right hand . |
| 8 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 9 | So we say ‘ Of course the cat believes the ball is stuck — it is conscious , its eyes work , why else would it behave as it does ? ’ but disallow that it might have the belief ‘ that it believes the ball is stuck ’ , this being linguistic ( Kenny 1975 : 5 ) . |
| 10 | They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face . |
| 11 | First oval and single , then weaving as it spun , like a water-lily on a stem , then suddenly seen as articulate in separate petals , a limp magnolia flower . |
| 12 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 13 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 14 | On Oct. 27 the founder and leader of the Spanish Labour Party ( PTE ) Santiago Carrillo , 75 , declared his party dissolved as it integrated with the Socialist Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 15 | He tried a grin , but winced as it hurt him . |
| 16 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 17 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 18 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 19 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 20 | Birthday Offering Precise and accurately placed enchaînements and éaulement give a clear definition to each step and pose as it takes its place in a perfectly balanced design . |
| 21 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 22 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 23 | I found the metal of the cutter easy to work as it seems quite soft in comparison to the tool steel of my gouges . |
| 24 | We now evaluate the product in reverse order : unc The reader is invited to check that , if B is resolved as it stands into unc then C = unc will also have its last row null , the zero eigenvalue thus repeating . |
| 25 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 26 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 27 | Seagram 's victory in the 1991 Grand National was an extraordinary coincidence occurring as it did in the final year of the company 's sponsorship of the race . |
| 28 | It overflows into a 3″ diameter down tube where the water is re-oxygenated as it enters the main tank . |
| 29 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 30 | It seems that the bacterial cell wall grows helically , twisting as it does . |