Example sentences of "be [v-ing] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gunfire and noise in the woods had been lessening as it drew nearer and the targets became fewer . |
| 2 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 3 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 4 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 5 | The reduction in the intensity of the stimuli associated with the drive is as reinforcing as the actual reduction of the drive itself : thus food in the mouth does not reduce hunger , but it is reinforcing as it reduces the drive stimulus or craving for food . |
| 6 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |
| 7 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 8 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 9 | Colchester North MP , Bernard Jenkin , was speaking as it emerged that the Danes had approved the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum by 56.8 per cent to 43.2 pc . |