Example sentences of "the [noun] as it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That government is the only institution now in a position to take possession of the funds and employ the money as it thinks fit for the best interest of the state . |
| 2 | Follow the lane as it bears right and across the farmyard , passing through a metal gate to the right of a white farm cottage . |
| 3 | This type of butterfly eye-spot should not be confused with the much larger eyes that occur on some species — eye-spots that are suddenly flashed at the enemy as it draws close . |
| 4 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
| 5 | The Purchaser must be free to run the Business as it thinks fit : there will be a conflict between the Vendor — who will no doubt wish to settle the claim for the minimum possible — and the Purchaser , who will wish to try to preserve goodwill . |
| 6 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 7 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 8 | Other conditions may be imposed by the court as it sees fit . |
| 9 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 10 | The latter — as in the former works — are shaped according to the job they had to do , i.e. rectangular ( not cubic ) tesserae depict the moustache as it falls either side of the mouth . |
| 11 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 12 | That regulation empowers this court to ‘ affirm , vary or revoke the order as it thinks fit … ’ but it is silent as to costs . |
| 13 | The fiction/concession theory saw the company as entirely the creature of the state and therefore potentially accorded to the state the power to regulate and control the company as it saw fit . |
| 14 | The Committee has the power to employ the services of such advisers and to take such soundings within and outside the Company as it deems necessary to fulfil its responsibilities . |
| 15 | Or , you can simply relax at the hotel as it offers excellent amenities for a comfortable holiday . |
| 16 | Chlamydia trachomatis provides the one bright light on the horizon as it satisfies most of the criteria needed for a causative agent in non-gonococcal infection . |
| 17 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |