Example sentences of "[adv] as it be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 2 | Harley would have them jump ship just as it 's pulling into the dock . |
| 3 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 4 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 5 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 6 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 7 | ‘ Suicide — suicide by drowning — about three or four hours ago , just as it was getting dark . |
| 8 | just as it was getting light . |
| 9 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 10 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 11 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 12 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
| 13 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 14 | Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing . |
| 15 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |