Example sentences of "as it [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place .
2 This I much regret as it contained some of the most valuable things you had collected viz. the bird you call the Whiteheaded Swallow , all the Cinclosomas etc .
3 I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country .
4 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 .
5 Despite its state-centrism , it is worth quoting at length as it catches some key specifics of the practices of the communications industries ' project for global consumerism .
6 He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity .
7 Happily this is not a serious drawback and the set is strongly recommended , containing as it does some of the most sensitive and intelligent Fauré playing on CD . ( )
8 Eating live yoghurt may also be worthwhile as it contains some of the ‘ useful ’ members of the gut flora , and may help to reestablish a healthy balance among the inhabitants of the gut ( see p 194 ) .
9 As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there .
10 Let us look at this problem of the nature of phenomena in more detail as it explains some of the difficulties faced by social researchers .
11 The plane had started to shudder as it entered some turbulence , and Myeloski was startled by it .
12 Despite these flaws the book is a very useful addition to the literature on southern Scotland , as it champions some fine but very under-rated areas and offers new ideas to most travellers .
13 She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly .
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