Example sentences of "[vb -s] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 2 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 5 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 6 | A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does . |
| 7 | Yet a business has no ‘ score ’ to play by except the score it writes as it plays . |
| 8 | The planet grows to fill the screen , the saucer glows as it passes into the atmosphere . |
| 9 | The shaft widens as it descends to form an immense cavern said to be large enough to contain a cathedral . |
| 10 | Understand why something happens as it does and you are your own master , able to use your common sense and logic to make judgements and decisions . |
| 11 | In Western philosophy , when knowledge or theory comprehends the other , then the alterity of the latter vanishes as it becomes part of the same . |
| 12 | If priming effects arise because of residual logogen activation in the visual recognition system , then one can explain why priming occurs as it does . |
| 13 | I know its London shrieks and shuffles as it rushes through road canyons and around the sharp edges of tall buildings . |
| 14 | The story ends as it began , with a boy of seventeen rescued from an inflatable life-raft in a confused , incoherent state . |
| 15 | We discover that prayer grows as it keeps pace with the moral and emotional changes within us . |
| 16 | is crumbly in texture and pale peach in colour when young , although it darkens as it ages . |
| 17 | Left FIGURE 7 The gliding flight of gulls — the further wing leads as it approaches ( A , B and C ) and trails as it departs ( D ) . |
| 18 | Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead . |
| 19 | It roars as it flies . |
| 20 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 21 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 22 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 23 | In talking about the image of Mitch as a hunk , the girls construct a female gaze which mocks as it dissects . |
| 24 | TIG GAG The creature most like man in the Southern Continent which smiles as it sleeps |
| 25 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 26 | That night in my areesh , wrapped warmly in my blankets , the wind rose again and began to make odd wind sounds as it pushed through the fencing . |
| 27 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 28 | So , although we know that the phenomenology of motion-perception varies under differing conditions , we do not understand why our experience varies as it does . |
| 29 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |
| 30 | The book starts with the personal , and then shifts as it progresses to more interpersonal and organizational perspectives . |