Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as its " in BNC.
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| 1 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |
| 2 | A TU154 weighs a third more and consumes half as much fuel again as its Western equivalent , the Boeing 727 . |
| 3 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 4 | It illustrates again the tendency of creatures to rehearse their past history during their own individual development , for when it hatches , it swims above the sea floor just as its ancestors undoubtedly did . |
| 5 | I hope that the Party can use Marxism Today as its ‘ front door ’ , and as a major interface with the wider movement : MT has done more than anything else to build up the prestige of the CP , and that contribution should never be forgotten . |
| 6 | Indeed , this ‘ autonomous music ’ is affixed in its own way to bourgeois culture just as its ‘ functional ’ , ‘ commercial ’ contemporaries are , in theirs . |