Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 32 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 33 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 34 | She tried to dismiss the thought even as it formed . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . |
| 40 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 41 | I raised my lager , shaking the glass slightly as it came up . |
| 42 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
| 45 | The pillar of gas and sand was pulled out by the wind , darkening the sand under its shadow and forming a curtain of haze under its base like you see under a heavy cloud sometimes as it starts to get rid of its rain . |
| 46 | He watched her hand anxiously as it hovered above the door . |
| 47 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 48 | On one occasion we picked out an exciting scrambling route to the top , taking each problem direct as it arose . |
| 49 | ‘ The division faces another difficult year ahead as it completes its fundamental restructuring and positions itself to become a viable business in niche markets , ’ the company declared . |
| 50 | As with the unregistered design right as it applies to other articles , the semiconductor design right is automatic and does not require registration . |
| 51 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 52 | His picture adorns the lockers on the shop-floor just as it beckons from the shop-fronts of Prague . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Eurocommunism is the generic name given to the political strategies and beliefs of those Western European communist parties which have broken from alliance with the Soviet Union and repudiated the Leninist model of socialism both as it has turned out in practice and as envisaged in ideal terms ( Boggs and Plotke , 1980 ; Carillo , 1977 ; Claudin , 1979 ) . |
| 55 | It makes a good windbreak too as it filters the wind , rather than encouraging destructive eddies . |