Example sentences of "[verb] as it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 2 | So , for the best colours and such details as bright yellow stamens , the flower must be picked as it is coming into bloom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden . |
| 5 | Charioteers traditionally carry the deadly Singing Blade , a glaive-like weapon cunningly carved and pierced so that it shrieks as it is swung . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That is the bit to destroy as it is stopping the development of the picture . |
| 8 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | of this species is accepted as it is described in Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae of G.H.K. Thwaites . |
| 11 | It is as important to clarify the ethical judgments being made as it is to understand the basis for technical decisions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The traditional approach is the obvious one — as much must be raised as it is intended to spend , no more and no less . |
| 18 | AS COST EFFECTIVE TO RUN AS IT IS TO INSTALL . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Answer guide : The land is normally not depreciated as it is assumed not to wear out . |
| 21 | Water that is above 4°C expands as it is warmed , like any other material . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We 're stretched as it is talking to every kid in the school now that they 're on holiday . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | One rôle of this pipe is to provide an unobstructed path for water in the cylinder to expand as it is heated . |
| 30 | It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears . |