Example sentences of "as it [verb] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 2 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 3 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 4 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 5 | In principle , elite theory is still opposed to class analysis at several different levels , arguing as it does that the interests and power of elites are not based on economic factors and that elite differentiation is inevitable even under socialism . |
| 6 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The last tiny flicker of hope seemed to die inside her , and as it did all the lights in the grand chamber went out . |
| 9 | The report will be used by the Woolwich instead of the mortgage valuation report as it includes all the information which usually appears in that report . |
| 10 | It has remained the accepted practice that all important governmental decisions emanate from the central departments in Whitehall , a practice which is of great help to the political leadership as it collects all the levers of policy-making and administrative control into one , compact , signal box . |