Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
2 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
3 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
4 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
5 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
6 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |