Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 2 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 3 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 4 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 5 | Quiss waited for the scullion to draw breath , and looked round the kitchens again as it did so . |
| 6 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 7 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 8 | I think the statement should really just be judged on its merits today as it stands . |
| 9 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 10 | Her clothing moulds itself to her body so as to reveal or to promise as much of the delights within as it conceals ; it too includes silk , soft to the touch ( 3235 ) and the fresh warm taste of morning milk ( 3236 ) . |
| 11 | And on these gravelly soils , the Semillon flourishes just as it does in Bordeaux . |
| 12 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again . |
| 13 | The Lieutenant 's horse was tossing its head , snorting , raising its bright hooves high as it trampled the crop . |
| 14 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 15 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 16 | Consequently the onus of distinguishing between the ‘ deserving ’ and the ‘ undeserving ’ poor tended to fall upon the officer dealing with the applicant in the fields just as it had fallen upon the relieving officer in the past . |
| 17 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |