Example sentences of "the [noun sg] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That government is the only institution now in a position to take possession of the funds and employ the money as it thinks fit for the best interest of the state . |
| 2 | Follow the lane as it bears right and across the farmyard , passing through a metal gate to the right of a white farm cottage . |
| 3 | This type of butterfly eye-spot should not be confused with the much larger eyes that occur on some species — eye-spots that are suddenly flashed at the enemy as it draws close . |
| 4 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
| 5 | The Purchaser must be free to run the Business as it thinks fit : there will be a conflict between the Vendor — who will no doubt wish to settle the claim for the minimum possible — and the Purchaser , who will wish to try to preserve goodwill . |
| 6 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 7 | Other conditions may be imposed by the court as it sees fit . |
| 8 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That regulation empowers this court to ‘ affirm , vary or revoke the order as it thinks fit … ’ but it is silent as to costs . |
| 11 | The fiction/concession theory saw the company as entirely the creature of the state and therefore potentially accorded to the state the power to regulate and control the company as it saw fit . |
| 12 | The Committee has the power to employ the services of such advisers and to take such soundings within and outside the Company as it deems necessary to fulfil its responsibilities . |
| 13 | Or , you can simply relax at the hotel as it offers excellent amenities for a comfortable holiday . |
| 14 | Chlamydia trachomatis provides the one bright light on the horizon as it satisfies most of the criteria needed for a causative agent in non-gonococcal infection . |