Example sentences of "[unc] as it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Er I think our position is that we provide as you know , air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting , particularly er as it affects U K air defence , we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer , that is the M sound system to which you refer , is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and I have to emphasise it 's not been abandoned .
2 The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions took temporary workers on board insofar as it took steps to develop a coherent policy on their use for recommendation to affiliated unions ( see IRS , 1986b ) .
3 It can , however , be dangerous insofar as it promotes heat loss : your body is tending to become cold in a cold environment .
4 He was interested in the music industry only insofar as it affected Virgin .
5 This document 's vision was ‘ new ’ only insofar as it proposed rearrangements to the current ‘ social order ’ .
6 Insofar as it provides information on their situation one year ago , the LFS enables us to see how many persons enter employment via temporary jobs .
7 Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have .
8 He provides a first-hand account of the board 's modus operandi as it developed recommendations that differed little from the promulgated National Institutes of Health guidelines but were turned into ‘ the first DNA legislation in the United States ’ .
9 Though generally critical of his own era , Byng none the less extended qualified sympathy to developments which served ends he valued ; to Methodism , inasmuch as it instilled ‘ wholesome morals ’ , and to spreading industry , inasmuch as it provided employment , though he worried that , like religion , which had ‘ overstretch 'd her power … and was blown up … the cotton trade … may crack ! ’
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