The phrase "as its body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing something that is characterized or defined by its physical form or structure.
Example: "The sculpture was designed to represent the essence of the bird, capturing its spirit as its body."
Alternatives: "in its form" or "as its shape".
The commonest of these small mammals is the brown, reddish-tinged wood mouse, with a tail as long as its body (it's also known as the long-tailed field mouse), which has found its way into urban areas but is most frequent near woods and scrub.
Constructs a new macro procedure with params as its parameters and the body expressions as its body and binds it to name in the current environment.
It's like talking about a Surrealist painting where I'm both the artist and the colours; or I might even go so far as to say it's like seeing my own heart suspended in front of me, and I'm supposed to talk about it somehow, like a scene from some fantasy movie: a beating heart running away as its body chases after it.
This is the only weak point it currently has as its body is protected by cybernetic and extremely strong genes.
Initial reports suggest it could have died from an illness, as its body showed no signs of obvious physical injury.
An elephant has ears nearly as large as its body.
This allows a croc to float in the water with as little of its body exposed as possible.
As long as a situated creature can sense its world so as to allow its body to be directly influenced, abstract symbolic descriptions can be dispensed with.
As Dong-ho teaches us the language of dead bodies, Jeong-dae elucidates the struggles of a soul as it comprehends its body's death.
The original inequalities provide an optimal relation between the volume of a convex body and the volume of several symmetrizations of the body, such as, its difference body.
It has a "macropattern" of stripes that break up the shape of its body as it's stalking or running.
