Example sentences of "[noun] as it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of ‘ joint reward system ’ deserves special mention as it indicates management problems in implementation . |
| 2 | The wind was rising again , mocking the arrival of spring as it lashed rain against the windows . |
| 3 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 4 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
| 5 | These two distinctive features are , of course , there for a reason : they allow the bird to capture much more air , which gives it a much better pushing force as it gains height . |
| 6 | The driver ran after the vehicle as it gathered speed , tried to warn people on Street to get out of the way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Peppercorn K1 2–6–0 No 2005 reflects the morning sun as it passes Bolden Colliery with the Northumbrian Mountain Pullman on 22 January 1983 . |
| 9 | It will be seen that the top line of activities repeats the first stage of the company strategic plan as it affects R&D . |
| 10 | DEMONSTRATING the style for which West Yorkshire 's Keighley and Worth Valley Railway has become famous , standard Eight 48431 carries out passenger duties as it hauls Pullman dining stock up the five-mile branch . |
| 11 | In addition , there is a revolution going on in Japan in the financial services sector as it faces deregulation . |
| 12 | She was making for the telephone box outside the Broken Dolls Hospital when she heard the puttering of a motorcycle engine as it reduced speed in the gutter behind her . |
| 13 | they write the lecture as it takes place |
| 14 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel as it lost height . |
| 15 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The scythe of time creates superiority of title as it does seniority of age . |
| 18 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 19 | ARTISOFT ENHANCES LANTASTIC AS IT UNVEILS VERSION 5 OF THE NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM |
| 20 | It was used by American therapists , before being banned in 1985 , for marital problems as it encourages empathy and dispels hostility ; it is often called the ‘ hug ’ or ‘ love ’ drug . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The continuum of sexual threat and violence of which rape is one extreme , pervades the movies as it does life , but rarely takes centre stage . |
| 23 | QUALITY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS EMPHASISES QUALITY AS IT DISCUSSES PATHFINDER PROSPECTUS FOR FULL LISTING |
| 24 | All together , elbows in ribs , knees in calves , packed tight and swaying with the motion of the train as it struggled north . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The car joined the evening traffic as it swung south-east towards Moscow . |
| 27 | However , my Presidency has impressed upon me the Sea-Change in recent years of governmental policy as it affects University and College finances . |
| 28 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 29 | As the line is paid out , and the kite ascends on the wind gradient with improving lift as it gains altitude , so the additional weight and drag of the line compensates , rather like the ballast on the keel of a yacht . |
| 30 | These not only include the now standard pharmacological treatments , but also the patterns of institutional care , and , Warner ( 1985 ) would argue , the broader social environment as it affects reintegration and the social role rehabilitation of the individual ( including the labelling , stigma and social isolation which may occur ) . |