Example sentences of "as it [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such a belief , resting as it does on vast assumptions about the nature of state power , is fraught with great risks and disappointments . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Its sluggish habit was not a hindrance , though , for it could kill with a mere glance or whiff of its breath , as it fed on poisonous herbs whose odour was fatal to man . |
| 6 | The degree of competition in a market is an imprecise concept , as it depends on those factors which force firms to take account of the possibility that their business will be lost to rivals if they do not satisfy their customers . |
| 7 | Go on , Jungle , it 's Sunday , knock it off , you want to shout as it rattles on 24 hrs per day . |
| 8 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 9 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 10 | A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places . |
| 11 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 12 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 13 | The society now moved from the rather passive position of regretting ( as it did on 5 August 1789 ) that ‘ there was no appropriate educational establishment in England for the desired improvement of farriery ( in this context comprehending the medical treatment of horses , cattle and sheep ) by a regular education in that science on medical and anatomical principles ’ , to a positive position of recommending such an institution as had been established in France , Germany and elsewhere on the Continent , as being necessary in this country . |
| 14 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 15 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 16 | This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe . |