Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 2 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 3 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 4 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 7 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 8 | Good news is expected from Marks & Spencer today as it tries to compete with Sainsbury as the UK 's most profitable retailer . |
| 9 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 10 | A theory for this cloud was proposed by Chang and Burnetti in Nature ( vol 314 , page 676 ) : that a meteor had encountered the cloud deck just as it shattered , producing heat that warmed the cloud layer over a large area . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 13 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 14 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 15 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 16 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 17 | News of the final terms caused the shares to bounce 31p to 558p yesterday as it became clear that they were much more favourable to Kingfisher than the market feared when negotiations between the two sides came to light earlier this month . |
| 18 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 19 | The sun left a red stain behind as it retreated below the horizon . |
| 20 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 21 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 22 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 23 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 24 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 25 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 28 | The ice made a crackling sound now as it froze harder and the wipers shifted it . |
| 29 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 30 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |