Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the North , protestant loyalists accuse catholic nationalists of not accepting the rights of the majority in the statelet to govern as it sees fit . |
| 2 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 3 | The old pals reunion at White Hart Lane … that 's Spurs v Swindon finished as it started all square … former Town favourite David Kerslake set up the Spurs goal for Jason Dozzell … and then another old County Ground hero Colin Calderwood went and gave away a penalty … it looked like a handball at first but Calderwood was guilty of pushing … |
| 4 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 5 | The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing . |
| 6 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 7 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 8 | Watching the stars dim as it turned first grey and then pink . |
| 9 | When independence became assured , further party newspapers appeared as it became clear that owning a newspaper was a necessary part of a successful political campaign : for example , in Nigeria , Azikiwe and his NCNC party controlled ten newspapers in 1959 , while their rivals , Obafemi Awolowo and the Action Group , controlled fourteen . |
| 10 | When provincial committees produced two or even three sets of recommendations , the centre 's longstanding inclination to act as it saw fit returned in full measure . |
| 11 | Like all cold-blooded animals its night vision improves as it gets colder . |
| 12 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 13 | The concern about population trends emerged as it became evident that population growth was declining and that the birth rate , in particular , was falling rapidly . |
| 14 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |