Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These great events took place in the year of Our Lord 1620 , and after that time , though there were disturbances from some of the remaining natives , there was no more profound danger , and the colony could begin to nourish as it does today . |
| 2 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 3 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 4 | Surely that hideously charcoaled horror should have shrunk as it cooked and disintegrated . |
| 5 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 6 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |
| 7 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 8 | But the company insists that property profits will probably continue to rise as it buys and sells assets to reshape its business . |