Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A and the forms as it stands picks up most of the points that we 've just raised . |
| 2 | Out of doors , if it is being chased by a rival cat , a dog , or some human enemy , it will try , as always , to scamper up a wall or a tree , using its non-existent claws to cling to the surfaces as it leaps upwards . |
| 3 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 4 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 5 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 6 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 7 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 8 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 9 | The second ( b ) suggests that the ratio may not increase as steadily in the mid-1980s as it had hitherto because the freeze on places and the shift towards science and technology would militate against women . |
| 10 | Most fortunately for the Allies as it turned out , since within days Falkenhayn was to unleash all his troops from the area of fallen Antwerp , together with supplementary formations of volunteers , stiffened by regulars , in a massive stroke down the coastline , with the object of encircling the sanguine Joffre 's left flank . |
| 11 | The crash happened yesterday morning when the goods train left the rails as it entered Maidstone East station . |
| 12 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
| 13 | Two of these they spotted as the German pilots began diving onto the Hurricanes tails , and at the right moment Westmacott carried out a hard climbing turn , coming out behind one of the Messerschmitts as it began to pull up . |
| 14 | Every so often the bird readjusts its position by shuffling its wings or tail , stirring up the ants as it does so . |
| 15 | It 's four minutes per museum floor , half an hour in Djemaa el Fna ( less for those scared of pickpockets and dirt ) , one hour round the city walls in a carriage at trotting pace and as much time in the souks as it takes to buy a rug , a leather coat and some fake Berber jewellery . |
| 16 | In 1598 , the estates reverted back to Maximilian Dalison , although it was not until 1601 , that he regained his full inheritance , and it is unlikely that he spent much on the maintenance of the buildings as it appears he was always short of cash . |
| 17 | Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over . |
| 18 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 19 | If that nose had pleased the gods as it pleased Caesar and Antony , a loose Alexandrian gnosticism might have prevailed instead of the Christian discipline imposed by the two Romes , the old one on the Tiber , and the new one on the Bosporus . |
| 20 | The continuum of sexual threat and violence of which rape is one extreme , pervades the movies as it does life , but rarely takes centre stage . |
| 21 | The River Aire , then purple with dye from the mills as it coursed under Leeds Bridge , began its journey as a pure , gushing stream tumbling cold and clear down through Airedale from Malham Cove — not far as the kestrel flies . |
| 22 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 23 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 24 | The layout can give as many messages to the pupils as it does to colleagues and senior management . |
| 25 | In a scheme that could have been inspired by Alkan 's Trois Grandes Etudes Op. 76 ( except that Alkan was virtually entirely unknown when the Eckhardt-Gramatté was composed ; moreover , Pisani 's notes explain the circumstances of its composition ) , the first movement is written for the left hand alone and the second movement for the right ; the Finale re-unites the hands as it unites the music , combining the substance of the first two movements . |
| 26 | What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press . |
| 27 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 28 | Although the maker and even country of origin of these pieces surprisingly remains unknown , one view holding that they are German rather than French , this uncertainty did not matter to the bidders as it sold to an anonymous private collector for $1,700,000 ( £944,400 ) . |
| 29 | The hedgehogs could hear its tremendous feet crunching through the weeds as it bounded away . |
| 30 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |