Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 8 an Albanian military transport vessel was seized by would-be emigrants as it left the port of Saseno ( also called Sezan ) near Vlore . |
| 2 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Easy Rider , itself , began to take on more menacing tones as it neared its climax . |
| 4 | It takes aim , compensating for the way that light bends as it passes from water to air and squirts a jet of drops , knocking the insect from its foothold so that it falls into the water and can be eaten . |
| 5 | This facility applies as much , if not more to industrial and commercial buyers as it does to individual consumers . |
| 6 | The supreme joy of Keld is the river , hurrying in a mad rush from its desolate beginnings as it thrashes through a channel it has carved in the limestone in a series of cascades and waterfalls . |
| 7 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 8 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 9 | The wavelength of the light increases as it passes from A to B for two reasons . |
| 10 | There are no English churches named after the old boy , or old boys as it happens . |
| 11 | The middle position is used for reaching in medium winds as it prevents the tail from digging in too much and encourages the board to plane . |
| 12 | But I accept and understand that there are some feelings today that the old system dated back from those Victorian days as it did , is in need of reform and should be brought up-to-date . |
| 13 | The risk is of so angering China that business confidence collapses , emigration soars and , after 1997 , Peking demolishes democratic structures as it sees fit . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the island parable raises at least as many additional questions as it answers . |
| 15 | The model is couched in ex-ante terms as it specifies expected security returns as a function of the expected return on the market portfolio . |
| 16 | Fissures in rocks are widened as water freezes and expands within them , exerting tremendous forces as it does so . |
| 17 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 18 | Mr Shevardnadze said the Russian air force Sukhoi Su-27 plane was shot down early yesterday by Georgian troops as it flew over positions near Sukhumi , controlled by government forces . |
| 19 | In occasional clearings the American boys caught sight of slender natives in conical , palm-leaf hats bending over fishing lines or snares for river fowl , but they rarely looked up ; only the naked , potbellied children paid any attention , staring at the Avignon with brown , expressionless eyes as it swung past the low banks on which they stood . |
| 20 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
| 21 | The neon sign made little clicks as it changed colour . |
| 22 | I was told to look out for a redstart at the next bend , its black face and chestnut tail showing for brief moments as it darted into the open , out and back , fly catching . |
| 23 | In the hush , broken only by the scraping of the shovels in the dirt and the soft thuds as it landed on the coffin , she sang ‘ Amazing Grace ’ . |
| 24 | In addition , the court has a general power to include incidental , supplemental or consequential provisions as it thinks fit ( s11(7) ( d ) ) . |
| 25 | A HIGH-TECH electronics firm has more than doubled interim pre-tax profits as it expands its world-wide operation , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 26 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 27 | How it changes tells historians as much about the technological developments as it does about the interface between human and machine . |
| 28 | Progress towards the single market provides as much of a challenge to legal advisers as it does to their clients . |
| 29 | Not such a great idea on long flights as it tends to cut off circulation in several different places . |
| 30 | In all cases , the inner mental being of a creature is similar throughout its life cycle , though expressing itself through different outward physical forms as it metamorphoses . |