Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 8 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 11 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 12 | The sun left a red stain behind as it retreated below the horizon . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ice made a crackling sound now as it froze harder and the wipers shifted it . |
| 20 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The obvious solution is to stop filling scarce space with bulky rubbish just as it left the bin : switch to recycling and incineration . |
| 24 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The conditioner has a single rotor with pivoting U-shaped tines which toss the grass upwards as it leaves the cutting blades . |
| 27 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 28 | That shoulder obviously still him a problem he seems to be holding it a little bit awkwardly as it comes in to Speedy now . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Masklin reached the door just as it opened . |