Example sentences of "[vb infin] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 5 | And he heard the shadow speak as it moved , and tentatively , questioningly , he heard it speak his name … |
| 6 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 7 | It needs , as a minimum , some complementary statement of aims of what the NHS should achieve as it moves into the next century . |
| 8 | Positioned some 30 yards from goal , the former Liverpool star unleashed an incredible thunderbolt which the bemused Hitchcock could only watch as it speared into the top corner . |
| 9 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |
| 10 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 11 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 12 | Version 6.20 of Logitech 's versatile MouseMan driver software is supplied and this offers various utilities like programmable mouse buttons , Windows pointer customisation and even an option for the pointer to temporarily grow as it moves . |
| 13 | That the argument will not do as it stands is , in fact , conceded in the Three Dialogues , where Berkeley allows Hylas to make the point that , although the existence of a sensible thing might consist in its being perceivable ( as in the premiss ) , it does not ( a fixed upon matter … may … forget that there be such things in the world as Spirits … and at last that there is a God , and that their souls are immortal . ’ |
| 14 | What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address . |
| 15 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 16 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 17 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 18 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 19 | The car did n't stop as it passed them . |
| 20 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
| 21 | What we have will suffice as it stands . |
| 22 | Yet I do n't know how to wish her to stay with you for your own reputation 's sake , my dear son , for the world will censure as it lists . |
| 23 | The event would conclude as it began with a handshake . |
| 24 | However , a democracy can vote as it feels fit , and the Tories are in very real danger of losing the next election as homeowners desert to the opposition parties . |
| 25 | Stunning — but this young Chana micropeltes may fade as it grows to a duller red . |
| 26 | Restaurants : Dutch cuisine is rich and creamy and comes in large portions ; pork does not dominate as it does in West Germany . |
| 27 | ‘ So Ryan 's stuck with a piece of land he ca n't develop and can only sell as it stands at market value ? ’ she asked , beginning to enjoy the irony of it . |
| 28 | Watching the stars dim as it turned first grey and then pink . |
| 29 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 30 | They illustrate the principle of allometry ; that an animal 's relative proportions may change as it increases in size . |