Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The most notable takeover was by the rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) which flourishes throughout London as it does in other cities . |
| 4 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 5 | The theme of instrumentality does not come through so strongly in relation to personal care as it does in other types of support . |
| 6 | An element of choice faces the student , just as it does in real life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ) |
| 13 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Football has not played as great a part in the company as it has in previous years . |
| 16 | The wholesale finance department , for example , would be most interested in companies selling back-office systems , as it specialises in front-end business consultancy . |
| 17 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |