Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings examined are interestingly compared with those featuring in films , whereas the exploration of middles and ends includes a study on theme patterning in " popstyling " , characterisation as it emerges from fictional discourse , and a functional typology of dialogue ( which is interesting , but unfortunately inadequately substantiated in terms of textual evidence ) in " actionbooks " . |
| 2 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 3 | Byron took up the above theme regarding the relationship between the communities we study and the wider world they inhabit , especially as it relates to complex societies . |
| 4 | In-Company Mentor — the role of the mentor is to help the course member set direction for the learning experience , as it relates to individual and company needs , and then implement Action Plans following a programme . |
| 5 | To appreciate the significance of this idea it is necessary to look briefly at some general features of the lateral arrangement of the brain as it relates to psychological function . |
| 6 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 7 | If an old person is also disabled and requires special adaptations or improvements to her home , careful study of a booklet entitled Housing Grants and Allowances for Disabled People ( from The Central Council for the Disabled , 34 Eccleston Square , London SW1V 1PE ) can be very helpful , as it goes into great detail on the subject . |
| 8 | Furthermore , during production the guitars are left to acclimatise at various stages , so the wood settles down even further as it metamorphoses into musical instruments . |
| 9 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 10 | The portability of a VSAM file from one device to another , and from operation under one OS/VS system to another , or from DOS/VS to OS/VS is helpful , as it allows for rapid conversion when different disks are installed . |
| 11 | The Justice Department faces a struggle as it seeks at secret meetings to persuade big national operators like Browning-Ferris and Laidlaw Industries to bid for commercial garbage-collection contracts . |
| 12 | The goal of collecting naturalistic language data is , by definition , to capture a sample of the child 's language as it occurs under ordinary , everyday conditions . |
| 13 | The object of this research is to explore the phenomenon of street life insofar as it occurs in inner-city areas in Britain , and to examine its policy implications . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This facility applies as much , if not more to industrial and commercial buyers as it does to individual consumers . |
| 17 | Section 17 applies to ascertained goods in exactly the same way as it does to specific goods . |
| 18 | This applies as much to external users of the information as it does to internal users . |
| 19 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 20 | Yet the city must provide the same services — street lights , rubbish collection , police and fire protection — as it does to bustling neighbourhoods . |
| 21 | What seems to be less well-publicised is the fact that this applies just as surely to good treatment as it does to ill treatment . |
| 22 | Such a belief , resting as it does on vast assumptions about the nature of state power , is fraught with great risks and disappointments . |
| 23 | It perceives the full complexity of the protection task , encroaching as it does on private family territory with an uncertain knowledge base and poor predictive instruments ; and it deplores the hostile climate in which such delicate work must be carried through . |
| 24 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 25 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 26 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 27 | Mortgage-lending accounts for the bulk of the Halifax 's business , as it does at other building societies ( thrifts ) . |
| 28 | Living as it does at high level , it produces fewer lambs than other breeds . |
| 29 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
| 30 | For almost half that length , through northern Sudan and all of Egypt , it is joined by no tributary , flowing as it does through pure desert . |