Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oblique-slip margins are considered in detail in various papers in Ballance and Reading ( 1980 ) ; the introductory article by Reading ( 1980 ) is particularly useful as it presents a general review of sedimentation patterns in relation to topography . |
| 2 | The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression . |
| 3 | A longer time period is probably advantageous to the acquirer as it enables a better assessment of assets to be made and gives time for undisclosed liabilities to appear . |
| 4 | The inadequateness of the term , however , insofar as it offers a univocal description of an extremely heterogeneous section of the world , also means that a suitable alternative general category can not by definition be produced . |
| 5 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 6 | The potential value of the research is not just theoretical , as it offers a new perspective from which to evaluate the innumerable problems which beset development programmes . |
| 7 | The child , as it gains a progressive mastery of language , grows gradually into an awareness of what it is capable . |
| 8 | Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , Kevin McNamara , says Britain should mourn the two deaths , as it proves the political system in Ulster has disintegrated . |
| 9 | The early history of the album is unknown , although it was in America at one time , as it bears a tantalising price of $35 inscribed in the upper right corner of the first page . |
| 10 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 11 | The Coca Cola international triathlon at Portaferry on July 3 , which normally attracts upwards of 25,000 spectators , will be a good test for the Belfast student as it features the coldest swim of any triathlon in the world . |
| 12 | Throughout this painting I choose to work within the arch as it forms a natural frame , concentrating the eye on the activity of the light on the steps , allowing an intensity of contrast to be created . |
| 13 | Throughout this painting I choose to work within the arch as it forms a natural frame , concentrating the eye on the activity of the light on the steps , allowing an intensity of contrast to be created . |
| 14 | To get to the Bungles in the first place needs a certain pioneering spirit as it involves a seven-hour drive from Kununurra , and the last three are over rough terrain that can be tackled only by four-wheel-drive vehicles . |
| 15 | The interaction is strong , as it involves the electric field of the radiation and the electric charge of the electron . |
| 16 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 17 | Therefore , as it takes a considerable amount of time to scan the tapes looking for rarely occurring variants , we have selected one particular variable of this kind , which we call meat/mate , and have studied this quantitatively outside the main projects in a different way . |
| 18 | Year round it is popular for walks as it exudes an elegant serenity inspired of the water and the graceful trees . |
| 19 | Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance . |
| 20 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 21 | As far as the private language argument is concerned , foundationalism is still possible as long as it avoids the traditional view that epistemology is the enterprise of starting from one 's own case and building on that . |
| 22 | But the collection here is best left for another day , as it merits a special visit . |
| 23 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 24 | The process which is generated becomes in effect an end in itself , creating as it does a working alliance within which both partners develop a shared approach to identifying and tackling goals and problems . |
| 25 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 26 | Come 1983 and the opening of the Sizewell Inquiry was obviously an emotional moment for Borssele , involving as it does a new sister plant just across the North sea . |
| 27 | British radio works far closer to the texture of ordinary life than that , engaging as it does a deeper sympathy for a shared world of ordinary experience and a total lack of awe . |
| 28 | Unlike the essay on Gide , Nizan finds much that is positive in Friedmann 's analysis , particularly its historical dimension , stressing as it does the abject poverty of the masses and the arbitrary and oppressive power of orthodox religion prior to 1917 . |
| 29 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 30 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |