Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
2 | The same section further provides that ‘ … any enactment passed or to be passed … shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing … ’ and since the doctrine of supremacy of Community law is arguably a part of Community law this provision appears to have the effect , so long as it remains law , of establishing the primacy of Community law , ( s.2 ( 4 ) ) . |
3 | Modigliani and Miller argue that this situation can not persist for long as it offers arbitrage profits to the individual investor . |
4 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
5 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |
6 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
7 | Market related pricing has shown itself to be effective in ensuring that consumers are aware of the real value of the resources they use , not only as it affects energy consumption but also in the realms of energy efficiency investment . |
8 | ‘ As soon as it gets light I think all the hunters we can spare should go out , ’ said Grimma . |
9 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |
10 | Cos it I used to get know when it , when it , soon as it goes tick , tick , tick , tick , ti ti ti ti ti ti tick ! |
11 | If the patient has a positive supporting reaction , the physiotherapist places his foot carefully towards the floor , grading the pressure it receives in order to reduce the automatic reaction of pushing down as soon as it makes contact . |
12 | Adam was trapped in the open and he sprinted towards a deep tank track as the aircraft swung towards him , nose low as it gathered speed . |
13 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
14 | Such an interpretation now appears at best inadequate , not only because monopoly capitalism ( that is , capitalism in which large corporations dominate the economy ) , so far as it escapes regulation by the interventionist state , seems quite compatible with a liberal democratic regime ; but also because the rise of fascism depended upon a number of other factors . |
15 | Thus Article 92(1) states that , " any aid granted by a Member State or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall , in so far as it affects trade between Member States , be incompatible with the common market " . |
16 | In fact the terms ‘ form ’ and ‘ content ’ ceased to be operative and were replaced ( in so far as it makes sense to speak of replacement ) by the distinction between ‘ material ’ and ‘ device ’ . |
17 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
18 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
19 | Consciousness exacted its price : as surely as it increased freedom so it diminished it . |
20 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
21 | The victim settles horizontally , floating downwind as it waddles side to side , then gently descends to the earth . |