Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the final confrontation , the comedy reaches its height as it emerges that , owing to a design oversight , ED 209 can not negotiate stairs . |
| 2 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 3 | Now the Sale of Goods Act is good erm as far as it goes but it 's |
| 4 | Especially as it melts and forms a |
| 5 | The Board rejected this view as it considers that only shareholders are owners of a company and hence the issue of warrants which are not subsequently exercised represents a gain . |
| 6 | A light , creamy Gentle Purifying Cleanser softens as it cleanses and the Gentle Moisturising Cream is easily absorbed to sooth the skin and offer long-lasting protection . |
| 7 | Complete the following : ‘ a ? \ @*; £ ! % beats as it sweeps as it cleans ’ ; ‘ a \ @*?; & a day helps you work rest and play ’ . |
| 8 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We have been closely monitoring the project as it progresses and introducing the operator 's staff to a number of techniques we use to evaluate the potential of the blocks . ’ |
| 10 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets |
| 11 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets ( like in Natrum mur and Tabacum . |
| 12 | In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again . |
| 13 | This is a particular risk also with stakes — when wind blow rocks the plant or stake , there is a likelihood of the stem or stake opening a funnel-shaped hole around itself as it rocks and compresses the soil . |
| 14 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 15 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 16 | Glass , like other substances , contracts as it cools and if the outer parts of the glass be cooled and hardened before the inner parts then the outside will , of course , contract more initially than the inside but , since the inside is still soft , it will yield in the early stages of cooling . |
| 17 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 18 | The frosting will harden as it cools and , as you are spreading it , it will cool more rapidly . |
| 19 | Even depressed Fort William takes on a magnificence from this height as it glitters and reflects the late evening sun . |
| 20 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 21 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 22 | As well as producing data on the two sexes that is not directly comparable , this is surely simplistic , suggesting as it does that men do n't have intimate conversations ( and women do n't have large scale confrontations ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Understand why something happens as it does and you are your own master , able to use your common sense and logic to make judgements and decisions . |
| 27 | and the moon starts coming across the sky as it does and it gets in the way of the sun . |
| 28 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 29 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 30 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |