Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In such highly evolved animals as insects the primitive segmentation , in so far as it affects the internal anatomy , has undergone profound modifications ; the segmental repetition of parts is nevertheless retained to some extent in the central nervous system , the heart , tracheal system and in the body musculature . |
| 32 | First the spiral opens out as it does in a shell , but then closes up again as it approaches the other pole of the cell . |
| 33 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 34 | A more appropriate image of Britain as it approaches the twenty-first century is of the economy governed by a not-so-hidden engine , working for greater inequality , both in rewards and life chances . |
| 35 | Now as it approaches the witching hour of um the witching hour of ten to ten I suggest we all go and run about a little bit for for ten minutes and I 'll do something about some of the emotional effects and some of the therapies in the next hour for all those who 're interested hello tape recorder , there 'll be another hour in a minute . |
| 36 | Now erm as it approaches the witching hour of twenty to eleven , I 'll try and finish off erm reasonably briskly . |
| 37 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 38 | I join the column as it leaves the wooded area and the Commandos continue the advance in file on both sides of a narrow road . |
| 39 | However , you 'll see that Le Preziose is opaque from the start thanks to all those eggs blended in by Buitoni , and as it cooks the yellow colour becomes more intense and golden . |
| 40 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 41 | AS IT ENHANCES THE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT AND REVEALS ROADMAP FOR IT |
| 42 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 43 | Between Blackwell Mill and Monsal Head the route cuts through the central limestone plateau of the Peak District as it follows the deep valley of the River Wye . |
| 44 | The crisp Highland air makes for a fine display of steam form K1 No 2005 as it hauls the Royal Scotsman along the shore of Loch Eil on the Fort William to Mallaig line in 1988 . |
| 45 | But must a foraging hyena be conscious of the food it has not yet uncovered , or a homing salmon aware of its destination as it begins the laborious trip upstream to its natal stream to spawn ; both exemplars of goal-seeking behaviour ? |
| 46 | This section is based on an article by Wilkinson ( 1982 ) , which is very useful as it exposes the underlying ideologies/philosophies or interests that are at stake in this kind of reform . |
| 47 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 48 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 49 | As it checks the very evidence from which all archaeological interpretation is derived , this basic experimentation is the most important , although the least spectacular . |
| 50 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 51 | RIGHT Quasar 3C 179 , showing a classic radio-quasar structure with a double lobe , a strong core , and a o*e-sided radio jet that undergoes significant bending as it enters the western lobe . |
| 52 | It overflows into a 3″ diameter down tube where the water is re-oxygenated as it enters the main tank . |
| 53 | The development of citizenship in the 1990s will no doubt continue to occupy the attention of politicians , and increasingly it will come to be debated by citizens , particularly as it enters the national curriculum . |
| 54 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 55 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |