Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ending the decades-long full employment tradition , IBM Corp on Tuesday formally laid off 1,400 employees at its Kingston and Poughkeepsie , New York mainframe plants , as it continued to notify workers of layoffs at its East Fishkill plant , where 4,000 jobs are to be cut in a combination of layoffs , transfers and voluntary redundancy by May 31 . |
| 2 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 3 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 4 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 5 | Remarkably , its arguments began to sound like those of the Central Electricity Generating Board , as it sought to cast doubt on the very existence of an acid rain problem . |