Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) At all events , from that age , make him do as he is bid , if you whip him ten times running to effect it . |
| 3 | The Group 's objectives and research strategy imply a continuously evolving work programme whose content may change as it is realised that particular issues ( or faults in past analyses ) are of more or less central importance . |
| 4 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 5 | The system may not operate as it is expected to . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's nearly as clever to let people think you do n't care as it is to let them think you 're silly . |