Example sentences of "as it be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is getting towards summer they would like the work done as soon as possible and subject to a satisfactory estimate I can authorise you to carry out the work . |
| 2 | That is the bit to destroy as it is stopping the development of the picture . |
| 3 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 4 | ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death . |
| 5 | The quality of the grain is deteriorating fast , as long as it is raining . |
| 6 | ‘ McDonald 's is the source of our future business , ’ Jonathan Dell says , ‘ as it is training children to eat out . |
| 7 | People see you on TV and give you a " celebrity " status that is as crazy as it is flattering . |
| 8 | as it is disrupting my mind patterns . |
| 9 | But the Government may feel that as long as it is going to extend VAT it may as well slap newspapers for 17.5 per cent . |
| 10 | I do n't know what to use to get rid of it , as it is growing among flowers and shrubs . |
| 11 | Agricultural resource management is now an important aspect of the industry as it is becoming increasingly necessary to place primary agricultural production within the context of environmental and market constraints . |
| 12 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 13 | If annual incidence is equal to annual outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at the same rate as it is emptying ) , then annual prevalence remains at a stable , unchanging level ( the water level in the sink is constant ) . |
| 14 | We 're stretched as it is talking to every kid in the school now that they 're on holiday . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 16 | So , for the best colours and such details as bright yellow stamens , the flower must be picked as it is coming into bloom . |
| 17 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |
| 18 | I notice if you put the the headphones in it would erm you 'd maybe be listening to it as it 's taping ? |
| 19 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 20 | You can stay tonight , as it 's getting late ; but be on your way tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | Harley would have them jump ship just as it 's pulling into the dock . |
| 22 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 23 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 24 | then , when you 've finished with it you 're paying again yo , to the community tax , as it 's going to be or whatever |
| 25 | As long as it 's going to run , I mean , I do n't know , I think , I think they up against |
| 26 | Generally , though , management 's view of the process had become ‘ it 's as good as it 's going to get . ’ |
| 27 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 28 | No , it talks about the life as it 's lying in store for instance . |
| 29 | And i i it magnifies the sound as it 's coming through so you 're lying there and you think , there 's somebody in the back ! |
| 30 | activates the lights as it 's approaching the crossing . |