Example sentences of "as it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it made the historic journey from being a charity team for Irish immigrants in Glasgow 's East End in 1888 to being a European Cup winning team in 1967 , there is a widely held myth that the club resents spending money and keeps its funds in the infamous biscuit tin , a closely guarded money chest under the Parkhead bed . |
| 2 | The court quashed the Minister 's decision on the ground that he should have considered the school 's application in the wider context and not only as it affected the particular school . |
| 3 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 4 | However , our basic model may be criticized in advance of this discussion in so far as it ignores the monetary effects of fiscal decisions and so may overstate the case in favour of macroeconomic management through this route . |
| 5 | With an almost lazy climb the solid fuel missile , grapple irons extending as it left the short barrel , reached its zenith and fell back with a clang , hooking on to the deck railing . |
| 6 | Every now and then a jack pike would rupture the tranquillity as it marauded the easy pickings . |
| 7 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 8 | The sensation rocked through her , and she wanted only to remain there , feeling the suggestive thrust of his tongue as it explored the inner softness of her mouth and gently , expertly made her intensely and inescapably aware of the hard , pulsing heat of his virile manhood pressing insistently against her thighs . |
| 9 | Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , Kevin McNamara , says Britain should mourn the two deaths , as it proves the political system in Ulster has disintegrated . |
| 10 | This programme however is far more attractive as it features the great Marguerite Long in music by the three 20th Century French composers with whom she was closely associated . |
| 11 | The interaction is strong , as it involves the electric field of the radiation and the electric charge of the electron . |
| 12 | The lorry changed into a lower gear as it reached the final slope . |
| 13 | His superbly detailed pencil drawing ( below ) of a loving mother elephant protecting her baby was an obvious choice , as it symbolised the protective spirit we all feel towards these magnificent creatures . |
| 14 | Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance . |
| 15 | As far as the private language argument is concerned , foundationalism is still possible as long as it avoids the traditional view that epistemology is the enterprise of starting from one 's own case and building on that . |
| 16 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 17 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 18 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 19 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 20 | Jay sat on the white balcony , shaded from a Mediterranean sun burning off white walls , sparking off a turquoise sea where the bright sails of a skiff were silk balloons shot with dazzle , sparkles of pure light bursting behind the boat as it skimmed the perfect waters . |
| 21 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 22 | Unlike the essay on Gide , Nizan finds much that is positive in Friedmann 's analysis , particularly its historical dimension , stressing as it does the abject poverty of the masses and the arbitrary and oppressive power of orthodox religion prior to 1917 . |
| 23 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 24 | Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones . |
| 25 | Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones . |
| 26 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |
| 27 | The JDS 's decision and the delay in making it has had serious repercussions for the profession , following as it does the unpopular decision to fine two Polly Peck administrators only £1,000 each ( the maximum possible at the time of the offence ) over conflicts of interest . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , where woodstopping has been used , it is usually apparent as it breaks the natural grain configuration . |
| 29 | The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading , except in so far as it determines the minimum liability . |
| 30 | In many ways Catania provided Keith Rowlands , RWC director and secretary of the International Board , with a microcosm of the problems confronting the game as it negotiates the commercial minefield surrounding its venture into the world of World Cups . |