Example sentences of "[verb] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bluefin is heavily fished as it fetches high prices in Japan where it is sold for as much as $40 a pound . |
| 32 | Significant other : no wonder the phrase has such a popular current usage , combining as it does two all-time favourites of late philosophical jargon — the semiotic sign and the mysterious alien . |
| 33 | A title which includes Sexism and Deviance must rate as unparalleled in its ‘ shock horror ’ value , combining as it does two of the current ghouls on the contemporary school scene . |
| 34 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 35 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 36 | The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing . |
| 37 | The concern about population trends emerged as it became evident that population growth was declining and that the birth rate , in particular , was falling rapidly . |
| 38 | Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us . |
| 39 | When independence became assured , further party newspapers appeared as it became clear that owning a newspaper was a necessary part of a successful political campaign : for example , in Nigeria , Azikiwe and his NCNC party controlled ten newspapers in 1959 , while their rivals , Obafemi Awolowo and the Action Group , controlled fourteen . |
| 40 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 41 | In principle , elite theory is still opposed to class analysis at several different levels , arguing as it does that the interests and power of elites are not based on economic factors and that elite differentiation is inevitable even under socialism . |
| 42 | North Yorkshire 's national reputation for education and industry links is confirmed as it hosts two major conferences . |
| 43 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 44 | Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days . |
| 45 | The boy sat like King Canute who forbad the tide to rise and was forced to sit watching as it lapped higher and higher . |
| 46 | It braked as it drew abreast . |
| 47 | When provincial committees produced two or even three sets of recommendations , the centre 's longstanding inclination to act as it saw fit returned in full measure . |
| 48 | The collegial atmosphere of the symposium was strained as it became apparent the Japanese and Americans regard the Indian team as reckless , the Indians feel Japanese criticisms are groundless , and the Americans advocate a policy that would leave the site a partial ruin , while others urge comprehensive repairs and reconstruction . |
| 49 | An expert from L'Oréal will talk about what happens to skin as it gets older and explain how to keep up with its changing needs by choosing from the extensive Plénitude range , which helps to combat the signs of ageing . |
| 50 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 51 | A considerable number of the newly enfranchised capital class now ally their interests with the top echelons of society , rather than help sustain the old political coalition of interests , encompassing as it did much of the working class , and significant parts of the lower-middle and middle class . |
| 52 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 53 | This I much regret as it contained some of the most valuable things you had collected viz. the bird you call the Whiteheaded Swallow , all the Cinclosomas etc . |
| 54 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 55 | Enthusiasm for an approach to the Comintern had largely evaporated as it became clear that the Communists were intent on superseding the ILP . |
| 56 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 57 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 58 | The plane had started to shudder as it entered some turbulence , and Myeloski was startled by it . |
| 59 | The disc is an unusual one , featuring as it does seven works originally written for other instruments , from Rachmaninov 's Prelude in G minor to Bach 's Partita in D minor , all in Hall 's own transcriptions . |
| 60 | The document noted that foreign debt was a threat to social peace and the stability of democratic systems in Latin America , restricting as it did social services budgets . |