Example sentences of "as it [verb] when " in BNC.

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1 As long as it go when you push down it locks it 's fine .
2 The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] .
3 Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure .
4 No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new .
5 Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new .
6 Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen .
7 So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system .
8 Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before .
9 Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth .
10 In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions .
11 When making an interim care order a court has the same duty to consider arrangements for contact as it does when making a final care order .
12 Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication .
13 Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc .
14 Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out .
15 Labour may decide — as it did when Mr Michael Foot stood down in 1983 — to skip a generation and opt for one of the new breed of classless , ‘ voter-friendly ’ politicians who do not carry the baggage of the party 's failures in the 1970s and 1980s .
16 The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died .
17 To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana .
18 The ground floor consisted of a key-cutter 's stall and some small shops , just as it did when Abu Khadra knew it .
19 As time went by the relief and pleasure at resuming a form of expression that ‘ seems to fit my thoughts better as I grow older , as it did when I was young also ’ became more obvious .
20 In the event membership declined through the 1960s and 1970s , and social activity has continued to outweigh political activism as it did when Abrams and Little ( 1965 ) studied the YCs .
21 But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ?
22 The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement .
23 " They 're not playing no game , " Mrs Blakey said , her grammar lapsing as it did when she was distressed .
24 From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago .
25 Does relative molecular mass have the same significance when applied to potassium chloride as it has when applied to benzene ?
26 But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would .
27 To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed .
28 To be fair to the scientists of the time the brain , as it appears when freshly removed from the skull , is hardly an appealing or inspiring sight !
29 But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) .
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