Example sentences of "[adv prt] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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1 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
2 | Baited hook sinks , stick-float rises , settles down as it travels while you dress the line . |
3 | This enables the bat to cool down as it flies , so if pterosaurs needed to cool down they must have worked their wings as they flew , and probably were endothermic . |
4 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
5 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
6 | This is largely eliminated with reverse-pulley car launching and winching , where the parachute is pulled in as it drops . |
7 | When this happens , one can see clearly displayed just the convulsions and contortions the lava goes through as it flows : the bands are tightly folded in tortuous patterns . |
8 | NOTES Hits any models run over as it moves |
9 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
10 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
11 | VauDe Space takes less than five minutes to put up as it erects all in one |
12 | The research will be written up as it proceeds , and will be published in 1986 . |
13 | But if we abandon UP as it stands , we have no means of deriving MP . |
14 | But it can affect the way the rig interacts and I 'm pointing it out as it relates to all rack systems , not just those based upon a JMP-1 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
17 | I would have the gearbox checked out as it seems to be at fault . |
18 | Push slivers of Flora margarine under the skin so that the flesh is prevented from drying out as it cooks . |
19 | The first chord would sound lamentably thin if laid out as it stands in the original , and the last two would be hopelessly thick and stodgy if literally transcribed . |
20 | It will be ideal if you can park the car in such a way that the dog can move in and out as it wants , with the door left open , although clearly this will not be possible unless you have a driveway with a gate at the end . |
21 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
22 | Some people like to use a card for each question at this stage so that it is simple to move questions about as it seems desirable to order and re-order them in the best sequence . |
23 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
24 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
25 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |