Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
2 | Use of ‘ joint reward system ’ deserves special mention as it indicates management problems in implementation . |
3 | Even if it is n't true , James 's position was an excellent stimulus for research as it forced people who would adopt an alternative position to consider very carefully how else emotions might come about . |
4 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
5 | The wind was rising again , mocking the arrival of spring as it lashed rain against the windows . |
6 | Mr. Livsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the National Health Service review as it affects Wales . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The driver ran after the vehicle as it gathered speed , tried to warn people on Street to get out of the way . |
11 | On the particular issue of regional migration as it affects Greater York , I would suspect and we can probably put some information in to confirm this that the linkages between Greater York area and other county areas within er Yorkshire and Humberside , vary . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | IXI SIGNS HAL , RISKS WRATH OF SUN AS IT COURTS SPARC USERS |
16 | It will be seen that the top line of activities repeats the first stage of the company strategic plan as it affects R&D . |
17 | In addition , there is a revolution going on in Japan in the financial services sector as it faces deregulation . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Elsewhere in this Report there is some discussion of the question as it affects cathedrals . |
20 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
21 | " Even if you have a copy of the old ( September 1988 ) Catalogue , have a look at this year 's edition as it contains details of 15 new titles and information on many more books , packs , videos and projects . |
22 | Until the nineteen-fifties this stream continued alongside Harcourt Bridge Road to join the River Nadder at Long Bridge , but has now been diverted , looking more like a canal as it dissects Elizabeth Gardens . |
23 | The Kinshasa demonstration followed calls from the opposition alliance , the Sacred Union , for popular protest in support of the national conference as it rejected proposals for its replacement outlined by Prime Minister Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond . |
24 | The recent history of liberal response to urban deprivation as it affects groups like women is littered with the unmet commitments and unfulfilled promises of such initiatives : each highly circumscribed ; each mediated through the transitory commitment of part-time interlopers in communities in which they do not live , among women whose lives they do not share ; and all controlled elsewhere . |
25 | they write the lecture as it takes place |
26 | 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 . |
27 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel as it lost height . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The scythe of time creates superiority of title as it does seniority of age . |
30 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |