Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
| 2 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 3 | It 's work like this from the front line of action as it happens , that has provided some of the most spectacular photographs held by one of the world 's largest picture agencies , Popperfoto . |
| 4 | ( 7 ) Armed with the threat of the above sanctions , the Panel can require a party to take , or omit to take , such action as it considers just to remedy the effects of a breach of the Code . |
| 5 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 6 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 7 | The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process . |
| 8 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 9 | Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic . |
| 10 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |
| 11 | Corbett settled his horse as it fidgeted nervously at the rustling of some animal in the undergrowth at the side of the track . |
| 12 | Proof that the XM performs just as admirably on the financial side as it does on the road . |
| 13 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 14 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 15 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 16 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 17 | The HGT-1 cell line was isolated from a human gastric adenocarcinoma , and can not be considered a complete model for the parietal cell as it does not secrete hydrochloric acid . |
| 18 | And when the bud grew in me , and I knew her every cell as it pulsed to life ; when I felt the pliant fingernails and rip of flesh that is a mouth:then I knew this was my planet . |
| 19 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 20 | He moved down her , the hard smooth flesh of his body , the velvet rasp of the hard penis as it rubbed against her belly , her thigh … . |
| 21 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 22 | As I watched , the sun dropped toward the horizon gathering momentum as it fell . |
| 23 | The leading vehicle , driven by Fire Chief Bob Wallace , reinforced by short lengths of steel girder welded across its front , lost not a yard of its gathering momentum as it smashed through the inner set of gates , flinging them wide to hang drunkenly from their torn hinges . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The appeal to doctrines of reincarnation is an almost essential fall-back as it shifts the burden of full responsibility from our shoulders . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |