Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 3 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 4 | Place a greaseband round the trunk of apple trees to catch the wingless female winter moth as it crawls up the tree from the soil in an attempt to lay its eggs . |
| 5 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
| 6 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 7 | This methyl mercury is absorbed by small organisms in the water which are eaten by fish which are eaten by larger fish , and all the time the poison is being concentrated as it moves up the food chain . |
| 8 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 9 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |