Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | fears about not bonding with or loving the child immediately — this can take some time , as it does with some birth parents . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , specialization in some groups of plants does occur , as it does in some of animals , such that the broadly different ‘ syndromes ’ of pollination and dispersal have evolved repeatedly in different families and genera of plants and are apparently incipient even within some species . |
| 4 | This is for the really keen seamstresses , as it calls for some tricky work assembling five risers or ribs within the top and bottom panels , and two combined riser/keels at either side . |
| 5 | You need an iron stomach as it tastes like some awful medicine . |
| 6 | The rising threshold of competence needed in the job market and the relative decline in traditional semi-skilled or unskilled jobs means that the compulsory school can no longer hope to provide a marketable , vocational education as it did for some ( usually lower-achieving ) children in the past . |
| 7 | He submitted that the undercover exercise , lasting as it did for some three months , was contrary to public policy . |