Example sentences of "as it [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , Kevin McNamara , says Britain should mourn the two deaths , as it proves the political system in Ulster has disintegrated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The interaction is strong , as it involves the electric field of the radiation and the electric charge of the electron . |
| 10 | The lorry changed into a lower gear as it reached the final slope . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 15 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , where woodstopping has been used , it is usually apparent as it breaks the natural grain configuration . |
| 23 | The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading , except in so far as it determines the minimum liability . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in so far as it addressed the complex issue of home-school relationships in multi-ethnic contexts , it was an important initiative which deserves to be extended in some form . |
| 26 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |
| 27 | Although I am sure that the Publishers Association is sincere in wishing to manage the book club rules as tightly as it manages the Net Book Agreement , we are all aware of the increasing confidence of the book clubs , who are bound to accelerate their invasion into the territory that booksellers have regarded as theirs . |
| 28 | They heard , like thunder , the explosion of its power as it struck the distant road , and saw the highway break and rise in two sections like two sides of a lifting bridge . |
| 29 | He allowed a long streamer of mucus to hang from his mouth , watching as it struck the white enamel of the sink and trickled slowly into the plughole , leaving a crimson slick behind it . |
| 30 | He heard the whirr of the bolt and shouted with pleasure as it struck the leading dog just behind the head , digging deep and slicing its spinal column . |