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 Coca Cola international triathlon at Portaferry on July 3 , which normally attracts upwards of 25,000 spectators , will be a good test for the Belfast student as it features the coldest swim of any triathlon in the world . |
| 12 | The interaction is strong , as it involves the electric field of the radiation and the electric charge of the electron . |
| 13 | The lorry changed into a lower gear as it reached the final slope . |
| 14 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 18 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 21 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 22 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 23 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |