Example sentences of "[v-ing] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all too bland , and the constant reference to the reader as ‘ he ’ is rather tiresome , implying as it does that there are no differences in the reading behaviour and tastes of boys and girls . |
| 2 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 3 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 4 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 5 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 6 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 7 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 8 | This approach to surgical research is again unacceptable , ignoring as it does much excellent research that is responsible for real improvements in patients ' care . |
| 9 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 10 | Their jit jive music keeps the listener moving as it blends high energy , finger-picking good guitar melodies with deep African rhythms and percussion . |
| 11 | Happily this is not a serious drawback and the set is strongly recommended , containing as it does some of the most sensitive and intelligent Fauré playing on CD . ( ) |
| 12 | Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 14 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 15 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The boy sat like King Canute who forbad the tide to rise and was forced to sit watching as it lapped higher and higher . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ’ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |