Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 2 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 3 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 4 | Policy development was incremental in as much as it adopted the smallest , least disruptive step with the least apparent cost ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 6 | In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels . |
| 7 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 8 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 9 | Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants ' clinics . |
| 10 | Lightning forked across the black belly of the clouds , and the rock that had moved as I was negotiating the bend had disappeared into the gorge below , the torrent running smooth as it lipped the broken edge of the old roadway . |
| 11 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 12 | Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages . |
| 13 | The crisp Highland air makes for a fine display of steam form K1 No 2005 as it hauls the Royal Scotsman along the shore of Loch Eil on the Fort William to Mallaig line in 1988 . |
| 14 | The space involved is still locally flat as it has a metric equation that reduces to a difference of squares . |
| 15 | Oblique-slip margins are considered in detail in various papers in Ballance and Reading ( 1980 ) ; the introductory article by Reading ( 1980 ) is particularly useful as it presents a general review of sedimentation patterns in relation to topography . |
| 16 | To do this , cut out the outline of the vase or urn from a large leaf ( an enormous autumn leaf is very useful as it has an interesting texture ) using a craft knife , and use the shape to form the container at the base of the picture . |
| 17 | This section is based on an article by Wilkinson ( 1982 ) , which is very useful as it exposes the underlying ideologies/philosophies or interests that are at stake in this kind of reform . |
| 18 | This way of looking at terms and not deciding their status until there has been a breach is very useful as it gives a welcome degree of flexibility to contracts , although it could be criticized for introducing uncertainty . |
| 19 | As far as the private language argument is concerned , foundationalism is still possible as long as it avoids the traditional view that epistemology is the enterprise of starting from one 's own case and building on that . |
| 20 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 21 | That Franco would tolerate political diversity only as long as it offered no real competition to his hegemony was revealed by an incident which occurred in February 1946 . |
| 22 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 23 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 24 | It will continue all through marriage as long as it has a good foundation of friendship . |
| 25 | It interprets commands inserted at the beginning of document ( such as : AT FAX0716083283 ) before it interprets the ‘ Dear John ’ bit , so you can send faxes from any program on any PC , as long as it has a serial port . |
| 26 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
| 27 | The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , where woodstopping has been used , it is usually apparent as it breaks the natural grain configuration . |
| 29 | The shielding with the collimator supplied by the manufacturers was insufficient as it caused a high background level , and hence a new lead collimator was designed to provide a more directional response . |
| 30 | Heather 's receding figure , dwindling as it climbed the pine-bound slope , twitched once more on the invisible line that trailed between them . |