Example sentences of "as it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 2 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Significant other : no wonder the phrase has such a popular current usage , combining as it does two all-time favourites of late philosophical jargon — the semiotic sign and the mysterious alien . |
| 5 | North Yorkshire 's national reputation for education and industry links is confirmed as it hosts two major conferences . |
| 6 | The pre-emption thesis will be readily accepted inasmuch as it concerns successful authoritative directives , i.e. those which correctly reflect the balance of reasons on which they depend . |
| 7 | This brings us to our third point , that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups . |
| 8 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 9 | The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life . |
| 10 | Strictly speaking , this is not solely a funboard technique but I include it here as it has such close links with the waterstart . |
| 11 | As for what it gets in return , Spain gets little farm money , as it has few rich farmers ( who get most from Europe 's upside-down farm policy ) and little research and development money , as it lacks high-class laboratories . |