Example sentences of "in [noun sg] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bobo pursed her lips and began to pant and chomp her jaws in appreciation as it came within reach . |
| 2 | A boar , tusked and red-eyed , suddenly burst from the undergrowth and Corbett jumped in fear as it blundered its way amongst the trees . |
| 3 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 4 | IBM AD/CYCLE STRATEGY IN DISARRAY AS IT TURNS TO AIX CASE |
| 5 | We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling . |
| 6 | The dusky pink body is heavily patterned with golden-yellow spotted scales , this spotting diminishes in prominence as it progresses down from the dorsal area to the belly of the fish . |
| 7 | At Chelsea they burned coal in winter as it tended to give an even heat , whereas wood burned too quickly and peat had a strong smell . |
| 8 | It comes as a surprise , often , to realise that such a clause as you know is constrained by rules , varying in meaning as it moves from one part of the sentence to another , and being disallowed in certain contexts . |
| 9 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 10 | Do Amaral said the control tower were unaware of the plane being in trouble as it came in to land . |
| 11 | ( Two hundred years earlier , as she demonstrates in her article , it was not seen as arbitrary , but prescribed quite explicitly on the grounds that the masculine was the ‘ worthier gender ’ and must take precedence in grammar as it did in nature . ) |
| 12 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 13 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 14 | Also outside the FTSE , Adscene , the publishing and printing group , was heavily in demand as it reported a sparkling full-year performance . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc is claiming it 's booking orders and delivering production units of Viking-based Sparcstation 10s in volume as it promised it would . |
| 16 | Flames swept through the wooden building and the boys , who at first tried to fight the blaze , fled in terror as it spread . |
| 17 | This facilitates the smooth running of government and must be advantageous to those in government as it minimises the need to effect formal changes , a task which is time-consuming and may be beset with difficulties . |
| 18 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 19 | You are fortunate to be writing in English as it has a vocabulary of over half a million words — over five times as many as French . |
| 20 | Yes what er happened , th there was erm erm er the radioactive cloud that came up was swept by the winds around the world and in fact as it went over the United Kingdom er it happened to rain on er Cumbria and North Wales so some of this radioactivity was brought down , it settled on the grass and got into the soil . |
| 21 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 22 | Grotesque in death as it had been , now putrefaction tinged the face a greenish hue . |