Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her concern with poverty , especially as it affected children , led to her writing The London Child ( 1927 ) and The Child Grows Up ( 1929 ) , studies of working-class life . |
| 3 | So the first day finished with me lying sleepless , listening to that familiar music coming from below as it had years before , the jazz records my mother used to play . |
| 4 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 5 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 6 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 7 | Visitors to Bowes can see the Silver Swan go through its ‘ elaborate motions ’ twice a day as 12.30pm and 4pm , just as it impressed Mark Twain more than a century ago . |
| 8 | SNIPERS ambushed an aid convoy run by the French charity Equilibre yesterday as it entered Sarajevo , killing a French woman and wounding two Polish drivers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 11 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 12 | On 4 March the Belgian ship La Coubre — carrying weapons purchased by the Castro regime — was blown up as it entered Havana Bay by a bomb allegedly planted by the CIA . |
| 13 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 14 | For this reason EC Directives in the 1960s provided for the repeal of such legislation ( in so far as it affected nationals of member states ) as the requirement of West German law that foreign companies wishing to pursue business activities in West Germany must obtain special authorisation from the West German authorities . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the very pursuit of ‘ respectability ’ , especially in so far as it involved claims to status recognition and participation in local institutions , was a source of social tension , a focal point in the growth of class identity . |
| 16 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 17 | In fact it became standing room only as Mr Duncan Broady , curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum , gave a fascinating lecture about crime in the period , particularly as it affected Manchester and Salford . |
| 18 | Consciousness exacted its price : as surely as it increased freedom so it diminished it . |
| 19 | 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 . |