Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
2 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . ) . |
8 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
9 | 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 . |