Example sentences of "as it [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 2 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 3 | The object of this research is to explore the phenomenon of street life insofar as it occurs in inner-city areas in Britain , and to examine its policy implications . |
| 4 | The most notable takeover was by the rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) which flourishes throughout London as it does in other cities . |
| 5 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 6 | The theme of instrumentality does not come through so strongly in relation to personal care as it does in other types of support . |
| 7 | An element of choice faces the student , just as it does in real life . |
| 8 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 9 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 10 | Modern writers do not over-stress a moral view but have sufficient faith in it to allow it to emerge , much as it does in everyday life . |
| 11 | As in the previous instances , this loss of the capacity to love does not originate in a process within the ego as it does in clinical depression but , in the case of the welfare state totalitarianisms , in an externalization of comparable phenomena . |
| 12 | Whichever is the true view , the general offence of fraudulent conversion has proved valuable , covering as it does in clear language a wide range of circumstances in which property may be misappropriated . |
| 13 | In contrast , case study materials aim to capture a real lesson as it happens in normal classroom conditions ( although it is never entirely normal to have a camera pointing at you while you go about your daily business . ) |
| 14 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 15 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 16 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 17 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 18 | In a constructional sense the arch never dominated Italian Romanesque work as it did in northern Europe ; it remained as in Roman times , more decorative than constructional in its purpose . |
| 19 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 21 | Football has not played as great a part in the company as it has in previous years . |
| 22 | The wholesale finance department , for example , would be most interested in companies selling back-office systems , as it specialises in front-end business consultancy . |
| 23 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 24 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |
| 25 | That consciousness , as it emerged in 19th-century Europe , was situated somewhere in the quadrilateral described by the points People-State-Nation- Government . |
| 26 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |