Example sentences of "as it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , splits in the Cabinet are rumoured as it meets to discuss next year 's Government spending programme . |
| 2 | However , insofar as it purports to strengthen that belief , the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act is to be welcomed . |
| 3 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 4 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 5 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |
| 6 | Will he bear it in mind that the law as it stands does great injustice and that many women are suffering life sentences that they should not be suffering ? |
| 7 | Does n't matter what it looks like as long as it 's got five sides that join together without gaps . |
| 8 | Doors of the hatch can be hinged or sliding , or even a lift-down flap , as long as it 's got adequate support . |
| 9 | The committee considers that the draft is acceptable from the subsidiarity standpoint , as it aims to establish cross-border freedom of services and investment . |
| 10 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 11 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 12 | cf. the Burial Service in The Book of Common Prayer : ‘ Forasmuch as it has pleased Almighty God … to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed … |
| 13 | As it has to pump more blood round the body to service the muscles you 're using , it will get bigger and stronger in order to do so more efficiently . |
| 14 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 15 | Counterpoint of the fugato or canonic type was used as accompaniment in Baroque times , but has now largely fallen out of use , as it fails to express individual mood or atmosphere . |
| 16 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 17 | " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance , and to preserve you in the great danger of childbirth ; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God … " |
| 18 | ‘ Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy … ’ |
| 19 | The Nebula is over 1000 light-years away , and we know that fresh stars are being formed inside it , because one at least has been ‘ caught in the act ’ as it started to emit visible light . |
| 20 | Furthermore , as it appeared to have popular support from within the hobby , more detailed information was needed before reacting any further . |
| 21 | Right , the examiners at A Level expect , an A Level student to be able to use the apostrophe reliably and correctly , so let's just erm , go back to basics , with the apostrophe , as it seems to cause more confusion than , practically anything else . |
| 22 | It was announced on Nov. 4 that the IMF had approved a US$30,800,000 standby credit for Mongolia in support of the government 's economic reform programme , as it attempted to arrest economic decline and restore financial discipline as a prerequisite for economic growth . |