Example sentences of "[noun] as it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I should do really got a clot in one of his legs as it means and went down the other one and got ta take it out , through smoking |
| 3 | Share research as it starts and whenever there is something to say by contacting SCRE Information Services . |
| 4 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 5 | Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district . |
| 6 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 7 | The Japanese like to negotiate each issue as it arises and there is an assumption that each party is prepared to make substantial accommodations to the other . |
| 8 | Although the wording of the Act suggests that it could be used in cases of abuse , it seems that there is such a general sense of unease about the law as it stands that some new and especially designed statute will be necessary for effective provision . |
| 9 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 10 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 11 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 12 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 13 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 14 | The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed . |
| 15 | This encouraged the BUY group as it suggested that metals , in minerals such as rocks , could indeed play an essential role in catalysing the formation of helium , presumably through fusion . |
| 16 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 17 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 18 | Zimerman 's , in particular , provides a memorably crystalline and trenchant communication of the score as it stands and his recording is surely among the most nobly austere , powerful and unadorned . |
| 19 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 20 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 21 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 22 | When making an interim care order a court has the same duty to consider arrangements for contact as it does when making a final care order . |
| 23 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 24 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 25 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 26 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 27 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 28 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 29 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , Japan is two-thirds wooded but imports half her pulp , and the United States grows half as much again timber as it needs and could easily become self-sufficient in hardwoods . |