Example sentences of "as it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 2 | SEDGWICK , the international insurance broker , yesterday revealed the extent of the difficulties posed by tough market conditions and falling interest income last year as it announced a sharp drop in annual profits . |
| 3 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 4 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
| 5 | The difficulty was that Labour could have found itself supporting military action against a fascist state at the same time as it threatened a general strike against war . |
| 6 | His friends viewed the affair with interest as it gathered a fair head of steam . |
| 7 | The shielding with the collimator supplied by the manufacturers was insufficient as it caused a high background level , and hence a new lead collimator was designed to provide a more directional response . |
| 8 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 9 | The leisure and recreation convener , Charles Farquhar , said it gave the council no pleasure to raise the charges , as it had a high regard for the people who ran the teams . |
| 10 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 11 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 12 | Glam 's translation of this high art idea of camp into pop ( seen at its most powerful in Roxy Music 's ‘ In Every Dream Home A Heartache ’ ) , resulted both in a primitive post-modernism turning yourself and your body into an Art Object with all the irony and the distancing that that implied — and a mocking entry into a ‘ public ’ private fantasy , as it offered a cultural space for a mass white audience to play with hitherto repressed ideas about self , consumption , and masculinity . |
| 13 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 14 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 15 | A police car was stoned by onlookers as it chased a stolen car which later crashed into a lampost . |
| 16 | As it happened a political upheaval in Indonesia in 1965 – 66 ( in which American contacts with the military in Indonesia may have played a part ) brought an unexpectedly early end to the confrontation with Britain . |
| 17 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 18 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |
| 19 | Rugby was even worse , as it involved a large amount of physical contact , and there was nowhere on the field you could hide and no playing position which kept you out of harm 's way . |
| 20 | It was the longest operational tour flown by RAAF aircrews but it served as a classroom as it provided a huge fount of experience amongst crews that , in effect , provided a base for future RAAF units operating in South East Asia in the 1960 and 1970s . |
| 21 | The former UDR Greenfinch 's sensational 11-day trial attracted intense media interest as it unveiled a tangled web of obsessive love , insatiable desire , cruel deceit and explosive violence . |
| 22 | A doctrine of creation could give coherence to scientific endeavor insofar as it implied a dependable order behind the flux of nature . |
| 23 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |
| 24 | In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels . |
| 25 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |