Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned . |
2 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
3 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
4 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
5 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
6 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
7 | The consultation on the plans to devolve 80 per cent of school budgets to head teachers closes today as it faces growing opposition from education authorities . |
8 | Riven felt a thrill of fear in his stomach , like ice poured liquid into the bottom of his lungs ; and then it was all he could do to steer his terrified horse in Murtach 's wake , and stay aboard as it swerved past rocks and bushes , and leapt hollows with the thunder of the other horses like a storm in his ears , and the rain a freezing hail in his face that blinded him . |