Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 2 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 3 | In TRACE II , a parallel architecture is employed in which each of the nodes is a relatively simple processing element which continues to send activation and inhibition to other nodes for as long as it remains active . |
| 4 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 5 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 6 | Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned . |
| 7 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 9 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 10 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 11 | Flamers sprayed at the fracas ; and at last rebels could be distinguished from loyalists , just as it became obvious that the new arrivals on the scene — pink salamanders — were also loyalists . |
| 12 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 13 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 14 | ‘ Just as it invaded this mutton ? ’ |
| 15 | He hung on desperately as it staggered two-legged across the road and then , screaming , turned and galloped into the woods . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you have given it , do all you can to collect it as soon as it becomes due . |
| 18 | As soon as a weakness or shortcoming in the system of regulating safety is positively identified the investigators need to inform the regulators where urgent action is necessary ; indeed , it is important that unhampered liaison channels allow the flow of all relevant factual information about an accident as soon as it becomes available . |
| 19 | At the start of the cross wind take-off apply full rudder in anticipation of the swing into wind , and then reduce it as soon as it becomes effective . |
| 20 | As soon as it becomes clear that the new attacks would not achieve their objectives within a reasonable period , then we must abandon them and ‘ seek a decision elsewhere ’ said Falkenhayn half-heartedly , adding : |
| 21 | As soon as it gets close , they do n't — they look round and ordinary . ’ |
| 22 | And I go to bed as soon as it gets dark . |
| 23 | The Polish government set about a land reform as soon as it felt able . |
| 24 | Hits are broken on the show and bands that have n't yet got a record deal are often booked to appear As a result of heavy plugging on The Hitman And Her , Virgin gave Sandra 's Everlasting Love a UK release , but as soon as it went top 40 the programme dropped it , claiming it was not about pop hits . |
| 25 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 26 | As soon as it became clear that Miss Trunchbull had completely disappeared from the scene , the excellent Mr Trilby was appointed Head Teacher in her place . |
| 27 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 28 | The particle of matter is instantly whipped towards the black hole by the huge gravitational tug ; the antiparticle is simultaneously repelled , and zips off to become a part of our Universe — although probably not for very long , because it will annihilate itself as soon as it encounters another matter particle . |
| 29 | Mm I 'm going to bed then as soon as it hits twelve . |
| 30 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |