Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings examined are interestingly compared with those featuring in films , whereas the exploration of middles and ends includes a study on theme patterning in " popstyling " , characterisation as it emerges from fictional discourse , and a functional typology of dialogue ( which is interesting , but unfortunately inadequately substantiated in terms of textual evidence ) in " actionbooks " . |
| 2 | To appreciate the significance of this idea it is necessary to look briefly at some general features of the lateral arrangement of the brain as it relates to psychological function . |
| 3 | If an old person is also disabled and requires special adaptations or improvements to her home , careful study of a booklet entitled Housing Grants and Allowances for Disabled People ( from The Central Council for the Disabled , 34 Eccleston Square , London SW1V 1PE ) can be very helpful , as it goes into great detail on the subject . |
| 4 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 5 | The portability of a VSAM file from one device to another , and from operation under one OS/VS system to another , or from DOS/VS to OS/VS is helpful , as it allows for rapid conversion when different disks are installed . |
| 6 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 7 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 8 | What seems to be less well-publicised is the fact that this applies just as surely to good treatment as it does to ill treatment . |
| 9 | It perceives the full complexity of the protection task , encroaching as it does on private family territory with an uncertain knowledge base and poor predictive instruments ; and it deplores the hostile climate in which such delicate work must be carried through . |
| 10 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 11 | Mortgage-lending accounts for the bulk of the Halifax 's business , as it does at other building societies ( thrifts ) . |
| 12 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 13 | For almost half that length , through northern Sudan and all of Egypt , it is joined by no tributary , flowing as it does through pure desert . |
| 14 | An element of choice faces the student , just as it does in real life . |
| 15 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 16 | Modern writers do not over-stress a moral view but have sufficient faith in it to allow it to emerge , much as it does in everyday life . |
| 17 | As in the previous instances , this loss of the capacity to love does not originate in a process within the ego as it does in clinical depression but , in the case of the welfare state totalitarianisms , in an externalization of comparable phenomena . |
| 18 | Whichever is the true view , the general offence of fraudulent conversion has proved valuable , covering as it does in clear language a wide range of circumstances in which property may be misappropriated . |
| 19 | In contrast , case study materials aim to capture a real lesson as it happens in normal classroom conditions ( although it is never entirely normal to have a camera pointing at you while you go about your daily business . ) |
| 20 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 21 | It is now too late for ‘ Wrapped Reichstag ’ to challenge the Wall itself , but it will give focus to the new political challenges which the country is facing , as it struggles with domestic discontent , recession and the enormous cost of unification . |
| 22 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 23 | We are confident that any problems in the early days of the new system will be kept to a minimum , and that their effect will be outweighed by the advantages of the new system as it comes into full use . |
| 24 | Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight . |
| 25 | The remarkable novels of S. E. Hinton — for instance , The Outsiders and That Was Then , This Is Now — describe the operation of honour as it exists within American city gangs with a passionate conviction one looks for in vain in many similar contemporary adventure fictions . |
| 26 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 27 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 28 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 29 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
| 30 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |