Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 2 | Where desktop publishing begins to score , even over its close cousin corporate electronic publishing , CEPS as it is known , is in its ability to integrate with current personal computer systems . |
| 3 | Charioteers traditionally carry the deadly Singing Blade , a glaive-like weapon cunningly carved and pierced so that it shrieks as it is swung . |
| 4 | Use that ‘ eye ’ to hold the end of the Spectra line as it is pulled back through the length of the braid until an inch or 25mm emerges . |
| 5 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 6 | of this species is accepted as it is described in Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae of G.H.K. Thwaites . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) At all events , from that age , make him do as he is bid , if you whip him ten times running to effect it . |
| 8 | The lady in the story ( as plainly told as it is titled ) inexplicably turns , halfway through an ordinary afternoon , into a bright-eyed vixen ; and the man in the story , equally inexplicably , Boy thought , remains faithful to her and loves her dearly even when she leaves him in order to raise a family with another animal and he even , in the end , goes mad with love for her . |
| 9 | The result is that the relay RLA is heard to click at the end of the timing period , but the timer re-starts as it is caused to re-commence timing for a further period . |
| 10 | Two toddler-type swings are requested as it is felt that more often than not two small children are taken to the playing field accompanied either by one or two adults and the provision of two swings would prevent disputes . |
| 11 | Their playing in the finale ( fig. 5 , track 3 , 42'00 ’ ) has real delicacy and clarity of articulation and in the slow movement for once really sounds as it is marked , Misterioso et elegante , and the muted strings , dolcissimo , have a lightness of sonority and colour which greatly enhances the atmosphere . |
| 12 | We come now to a full post-production assemble edit in which the camera-original material is completely re-arranged as it is copied onto a second tape . |
| 13 | The traditional approach is the obvious one — as much must be raised as it is intended to spend , no more and no less . |
| 14 | Not a diamond , perhaps , but a flinty , 18-carat performance from a competitive lad whose patient willingness to do as he is bid by club and country as either No 10 or 15 is a lasting credit . |
| 15 | While members must make the major policy decisions , Bains recognised that officers contribute to the stimulation and formulation of policy : ‘ … the skilled professional officer is not just a servant who is paid to do as he is told ’ ( Bains 1972:8 ) . |
| 16 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 17 | Answer guide : The land is normally not depreciated as it is assumed not to wear out . |
| 18 | Water that is above 4°C expands as it is warmed , like any other material . |
| 19 | Assuming that the Commission makes recommendations acceptable to the Government , then there will not necessarily be a delay before the legislation is introduced as it is accepted that sentencing bargaining can be introduced in England and Wales simply by a Practice Direction from the Lord Chief Justice , or in Scotland by an Act of Adjournal in the High Court by the Lord Justice General . |
| 20 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 21 | Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed . |
| 22 | Émile Chaillot displayed the deep impatience of a bureaucrat towards an artist who is not doing as he is bid . |
| 23 | The Group 's objectives and research strategy imply a continuously evolving work programme whose content may change as it is realised that particular issues ( or faults in past analyses ) are of more or less central importance . |
| 24 | Italian government falls as it is revealed that Vatican money to rescue Olivetti came from the Mafia ; Cosa Nostra says ‘ we were just doing Our Thing ’ . |
| 25 | One rôle of this pipe is to provide an unobstructed path for water in the cylinder to expand as it is heated . |
| 26 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 27 | The system may not operate as it is expected to . |
| 28 | If you neglect to make this allowance , the first second or so of each shot will be lost as it is assembled onto the copy . |
| 29 | What had not been foreseen was the linking of the CNAA with a public system of higher education ‘ as rigidly conceived as it is implemented by present governmental policy ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ For your daughter 's sake , Mrs Abberley , make sure your husband does as he is told this time . |