Example sentences of "as it [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets |
| 2 | Pains that increase as the sun rises to midday and decrease as it falls and sets ( like in Natrum mur and Tabacum . |
| 3 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 4 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 5 | As well as producing data on the two sexes that is not directly comparable , this is surely simplistic , suggesting as it does that men do n't have intimate conversations ( and women do n't have large scale confrontations ) . |
| 6 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 7 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 8 | The coverage of the new business park was encouraging , however , as it showed that Scotswood had not been forgotten , and there was hope for a better future . |
| 9 | If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it . |
| 10 | In the event membership declined through the 1960s and 1970s , and social activity has continued to outweigh political activism as it did when Abrams and Little ( 1965 ) studied the YCs . |
| 11 | The ground floor consisted of a key-cutter 's stall and some small shops , just as it did when Abu Khadra knew it . |
| 12 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |
| 13 | Labour may decide — as it did when Mr Michael Foot stood down in 1983 — to skip a generation and opt for one of the new breed of classless , ‘ voter-friendly ’ politicians who do not carry the baggage of the party 's failures in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 14 | The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received . |
| 15 | Pluralists , on the other hand , normally eschew the concept of objective interests insofar as it suggests that group goals can be deduced from objective data about the social or economic nature of the group . |
| 16 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 17 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 18 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 20 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 21 | The Stylesetter Award is particularly gratifying as it confirms that Stoddard Templeton is continuing to lead the way in carpet development through its design expertise . |
| 22 | This encouraged the BUY group as it suggested that metals , in minerals such as rocks , could indeed play an essential role in catalysing the formation of helium , presumably through fusion . |
| 23 | This rechunking of the text may be an idiosyncratic adjustment on the part of the German translator , as it appears that German does not generally favour more breaks than English . |
| 24 | The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed . |