Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This orang utan demonstrates its ability to grasp efficiently with both hands and feet — a useful trick as it spends most of its life in the trees . |
| 2 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | This approach to surgical research is again unacceptable , ignoring as it does much excellent research that is responsible for real improvements in patients ' care . |
| 13 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 14 | It is all too bland , and the constant reference to the reader as ‘ he ’ is rather tiresome , implying as it does that there are no differences in the reading behaviour and tastes of boys and girls . |
| 15 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 16 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 17 | In principle , elite theory is still opposed to class analysis at several different levels , arguing as it does that the interests and power of elites are not based on economic factors and that elite differentiation is inevitable even under socialism . |
| 18 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ( ) |
| 25 | Erm as it happens this is the area where a spring of mineral water here for er for us to exploit . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Going much more slowly now as it records more conver conversations . |