Example sentences of "as it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 2 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 3 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 4 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 5 | Detailed ultrasound scanning has been shown to be cost effective as it detects most cases of Down 's syndrome as well as other life threatening conditions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The latter — as in the former works — are shaped according to the job they had to do , i.e. rectangular ( not cubic ) tesserae depict the moustache as it falls either side of the mouth . |
| 8 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 9 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 10 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 11 | As it reached each tree in turn , the tree gracefully bent over , curving its trunk so that both roots and branches touched the ground . |
| 12 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 13 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 14 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 15 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 16 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | It was released in 1990 , and is written in C. Secretary of the British APL Association , Anthony Camacho , claims that J is less complicated as it uses fewer symbols than APL — its syntax analyser takes up only one page of C , while other versions take up enormous amounts . |
| 22 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 23 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 24 | However , with cash in short supply , Dolphin has had to put some of its own SCI product development on hold for the time being , until , as it hopes more cash comes rolling in . |
| 25 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 26 | Aldermaston was chosen as it met these requirements . |
| 27 | Similarly , the personnel function in these firms often has amazing power as it manages each individual 's assessment . |
| 28 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |
| 29 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 30 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |