Example sentences of "the [noun sg] as it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Bob Walker of the manufacturing support department , who developed the course with Paul Swiety of the work study department , said : ‘ This is an important feature of the course as it helps people to understand that TNT has an impact across the whole structure of the Group at all levels . ’ |
2 | The driver ran after the vehicle as it gathered speed , tried to warn people on Street to get out of the way . |
3 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
4 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
5 | Elsewhere in this Report there is some discussion of the question as it affects cathedrals . |
6 | they write the lecture as it takes place |
7 | The petrol ignited immediately , a loud whump filling the room as it consumed Connelly 's body , which twisted insanely on the ropes as he screamed in uncontrollable agony . |
8 | By road take the motorway N1 heading west from Bern , taking care in 12km ( 7 ½miles ) not to take the exit for Kerzers and Neuchatel but to continue on the motorway as it curves south and becomes an ordinary national road a short distance from Murten Murten lies beside the lake which bears its name , close to the linguistic frontier between French and German speech . |
9 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
10 | Pre-rinse A short cold rinse , useful if you are likely to fill the machine up in dribs and drabs during the day as it prevents food from drying on to the dishes and cutlery . |
11 | Although the enclosure movement in all these forms was the last great revolution in the English landscape , radically changing much of the countryside as it took place , it also gave us a landscape which is aesthetically much more pleasing to most people . |
12 | All together , elbows in ribs , knees in calves , packed tight and swaying with the motion of the train as it struggled north . |
13 | While the question of refugees highlighted the dilemma facing the government as it established freedom of movement [ see above ] , it also provoked problems in Romania 's foreign relations , especially with Hungary . |
14 | I watched the smoke rising from the liquid as it changed colour from red to purple and at last to green . |
15 | To have one 's hand fixed by an elastic band to the telephone receiver was the norm as it encouraged continuity of business — if it was n't used too frequently . |
16 | He squinted at a car on the road as it hurried north . |
17 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
18 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
19 | By studying the project as it takes place , the lessons learned in the earlier stages can be taken into account in planning the later stages . |
20 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
21 | I would commend the motion as it stand Chairman and hope that the that the council will vote for it . |
22 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |