Example sentences of "as it [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 2 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |
| 3 | At first sight , the dictum — though not the decision — the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper appears to be inconsistent with the spirit of Schedule 1 Para 32 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 , which provides , ‘ … any provision in any agreement ( whether a contract of employment or not ) shall be void insofar as it purports to exclude or limit the operation of any provision of this Act … . ’ |
| 4 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 5 | Hence , learning takes just as long as it takes to present and record the examples . |
| 6 | Critical thinking is , however , essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build . |
| 7 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 8 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 9 | Authority had decreed when I must sleep and when I must not , just as it had decreed when and how much I should eat ; it was my business , in my bid for autonomy , to reverse the decisions of authority . |
| 10 | It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road . |
| 11 | The centralizing and autocratic nature of papal monarchy as it had developed after the Gregorian Reform of the eleventh century was probably the principal underlying problem behind the sixteenth-century Reformation . |
| 12 | Calvinism as it had developed and hardened had tended to place a huge emphasis on man 's total depravity and sinfulness , to limit the forgiveness offered in Jesus Christ to the ‘ elect ’ , and to speak as if faith were a condition of forgiveness , our side of a bargain made with God . |
| 13 | He concluded that her refusal did not extend to the situation as it had developed and granted the declaration sought . |
| 14 | It was gone as soon as it had come and he re-established his public gaze . |
| 15 | An observer sitting on the star 's surface could , in theory , trace the history of the object as it continues to shrink until it reaches the so called space-time singularity , when all its mass is concentrated into a point . |
| 16 | Fingers are being kept firmly crossed at British Coal HQ as it waits to see if faulty roof bolts led to the recent accident at the Stillingfleet colliery , part of the new Selby complex , when the collapse of a roof trapped five miners underground for over a day . |
| 17 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 18 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 19 | Local political activity came to be seen as part and parcel of changes taking place within capitalist society as a whole , especially within the capitalist state as it attempts to manage and transform a social and economic system in profound crisis . |
| 20 | It looks nothing when it is in pieces but as soon as it 's done and together , it looks nice . |
| 21 | Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ? |
| 22 | The history of polarity reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field recorded in this newly generated crust as it cooled indicated that , once formed , it moved away from ridges towards oceanic trenches . |
| 23 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 24 | The image of royalty gives us an idea just how powerful and proud the train is as it seems to influence and belittle all the things around it . |