Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly intriguing as it incriminates food in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | The development of industry within urban areas tends to be welcome as it provides employment for those who lose their jobs when older industries become redundant . |
| 3 | A desk with an adjustable sloping top is useful as it provides storage space too , but probably the most practical aid , especially as the pupil progresses into secondary school , is a light , portable reading stand that can be easily taken from room to room as required . |
| 4 | Inner conflict has as much potential for good as it does evil , for the conflicts experienced provide opportunities for mature choices , as well as self-luxuriating indulgences . |
| 5 | My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation . |
| 6 | But many people would no doubt argue that the current ‘ anything goes as long as it sells papers ’ style goes too far the other way . |
| 7 | And they tolerated Gustav — gave him a job on the land — as long as it kept Mina happy and she kept them happy . |
| 8 | Beyond that was a stable , with the horse standing there indifferently , uncaring what passed before its eyes as long as it had food . |
| 9 | Christianity , as long as it remains Christianity , can not lose its historical reference . |
| 10 | Ah sure well that , th th that 's , that 's what , but anyway , as long as it created discussion , that was the point of it . |
| 11 | He also undertook not to publish any paperback version of ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ as long as it gave offence . |
| 12 | From a purely selfish point of view , if the policy were to indicate specific areas of the county erm where this policy would er be appropriate and would apply erm and as long as it excluded Craven , then I think |
| 13 | The important thing to remember is that it does n't matter in the slightest what this garment looks like , as long as it boasts practicality and water-resistant qualitites . |
| 14 | This notion of delicacy is important as it draws attention to primary similarities before directing attention to secondary differences . |
| 15 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 16 | At dawn one spring morning a heavily loaded freight train , headed by a pre-war 2 — 8 — 0 locomotive , was running out of steam owing to a badly clinkered fire-bed as it approached Brook End signal box . |
| 17 | Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up . |
| 18 | An overall cleaning materials budget accessible to several departments is useless as it invites irresponsibility as expenditure can not be traced . |
| 19 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 20 | The Myrcan stave was almost invisible as it smashed bones and cracked skulls , hurling the animals into the river , and Darmid 's sword wreaked havoc also . |
| 21 | A multijunction cell , Solarex believes , should be more efficient as it uses layers of different crystals , each of which is optimised for a specific band of the visible light spectrum . |
| 22 | IBM 's emergency board meeting ousts the entire management , but Thanksgiving by IBM employees is short-lived as it appoints W Michael Blumenthal to succeed John Akers . |
| 23 | The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume , the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face . |
| 24 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 25 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the choice of a high shoulder angle is entirely valid as it maximizes performance . |