Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Good news is expected from Marks & Spencer today as it tries to compete with Sainsbury as the UK 's most profitable retailer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 6 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise . |
| 14 | We value this regular service highly as it has been a source of up-to-date information which is readily available on a weekly basis . |
| 15 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 16 | I think the statement should really just be judged on its merits today as it stands . |
| 17 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 18 | Her clothing moulds itself to her body so as to reveal or to promise as much of the delights within as it conceals ; it too includes silk , soft to the touch ( 3235 ) and the fresh warm taste of morning milk ( 3236 ) . |
| 19 | And on these gravelly soils , the Semillon flourishes just as it does in Bordeaux . |
| 20 | The canal passes under the eastern spur of the M5 and then leaves the noise and traffic behind as it dives into a deep wooded cutting from where there is little evidence that the canal is passing between the housing estates of Grove Vale as the atmosphere is so pleasantly rural . |
| 21 | The conditioner has a single rotor with pivoting U-shaped tines which toss the grass upwards as it leaves the cutting blades . |
| 22 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again . |
| 23 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 24 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 25 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 26 | The Lepismatidae have acquired an additional anterior articulation which , with other changes , enables the mandible to move by adduction and abduction in the transverse plane rather as it does in most mandibulate Pterygotes . |
| 27 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 28 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 29 | ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 . |
| 30 | Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese . |