Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most guitarists have heard of the ‘ waxing ’ method of eliminating feedback , but unfortunately this is a difficult process to carry out at home as it involves dipping the whole pickup assembly into hot paraffin wax , which has to be carried out at a controlled temperature : too hot and the bobbins melt , too cold and the wax does n't penetrate the coil windings . |
| 2 | At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold . |
| 3 | Pray for Tear Fund as it seeks to bring the whole Gospel into lives which have been shattered by famine , war and disaster . |
| 4 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 5 | Just as it favours conserving the existing definition of sexual intercourse for rape , the Committee seeks to retain the crime of buggery to deal exclusively with anal intercourse . |
| 6 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 7 | The chapter sets the tenor for the whole work in so far as it tries to examine the social conditions under which blacks became involved in sport , first in the USA and then in Great Britain . |
| 8 | As it has developed the residential unit , which incorporates 2 beds which can be used by the consultant providing the psychogeriatric services , has developed an emphasis on early diagnosis , assessment and rehabilitation Two people have moved into the unit from hospital and a further 3 or 4 may be rehoused in a group living situation in a house nearby . |
| 9 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 10 | In this instance , established authority and its police were set to oppose the threat posed by this new anti-structure , for the counter-culture renounced power and society feared their challenge , as it has feared the unworldly in every age . |
| 11 | Belgrade radio , reporting an FEC session , said that the federal army had stopped all its activities " as it has accomplished the planned tasks " . |
| 12 | ‘ Clearly , this is worrying for the board as it prepares to address the new objectives for 1992/93 . ’ |