Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 We discover that prayer grows as it keeps pace with the moral and emotional changes within us .
32 Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom .
33 As it takes time for these reactions to occur , one country 's acid rain may be the result of another 's emissions .
34 The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded .
35 ( As it takes place within an overall structure of hierarchy and private ownership it is clear why the principle can only be described as quasi-democratic . )
36 By studying the project as it takes place , the lessons learned in the earlier stages can be taken into account in planning the later stages .
37 Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method .
38 they write the lecture as it takes place
39 It also deprives the country of aid programmes of about $350 million a year , a modest sum in itself ; but as it represents IMF endorsement it is the key to unlocking further substantial bilateral aid to support the economy .
40 It is an important forum for RFU communication with young rugby players , as it represents partnership rather than authority .
41 Until the nineteen-fifties this stream continued alongside Harcourt Bridge Road to join the River Nadder at Long Bridge , but has now been diverted , looking more like a canal as it dissects Elizabeth Gardens .
42 All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation .
43 It was used by American therapists , before being banned in 1985 , for marital problems as it encourages empathy and dispels hostility ; it is often called the ‘ hug ’ or ‘ love ’ drug .
44 Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed .
45 Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs .
46 A diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables is obviously to be recommended as it encourages digestion and elimination .
47 All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway .
48 I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs .
49 In other respects , Imagining Women does well by the visual image , including as it does sections on popular television , film and pornography .
50 One other factor influences weeding policy , as it does selection policy .
51 containing as it does Professor Hoskins ' evocative explanation of the piece of the English landscape visible from the window of his study in Oxfordshire .
52 Crime and Punishment naturalizes the mystic brazenness of Sonya 's statement , as it does Porfiry 's ‘ You ca n't get on without us ' .
53 J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads .
54 The continuum of sexual threat and violence of which rape is one extreme , pervades the movies as it does life , but rarely takes centre stage .
55 These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium .
56 The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine .
57 Inner conflict has as much potential for good as it does evil , for the conflicts experienced provide opportunities for mature choices , as well as self-luxuriating indulgences .
58 The scythe of time creates superiority of title as it does seniority of age .
59 Materialism brings in its wake as many problems as it does blessings .
60 Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information .
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