Example sentences of "as it [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages .
4 Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound .
5 In addition , though wheat and triticale both contain around 13 per cent protein , that of triticale is better quality as it contains a larger share of lysine , an amino-acid that is relatively deficient in most cereal proteins .
6 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 .
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