Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 2 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 3 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 4 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 5 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 6 | there will be a review of the drink driving problem as it relates to Lothian |
| 7 | This article gives an overview of SCOTVEC 's current position on quality assurance , as it relates to workplace assessment , which is now becoming an important feature of SVQs . |
| 8 | Day-to-day responsibility for administering the planning system as it relates to minerals rests with the mineral planning authorities ( MPAs ) . |
| 9 | Although Arieti himself fails properly to follow it through , his observation underpins an important theme in our understanding of creativity as it relates to psychosis , and we shall have occasion to refer to it again . |
| 10 | example If you have a general political interest in social class , this could support an investigation of class as it relates to characters ' use of irony in Emma . |
| 11 | In a review of climatology as it relates to geography Terjung ( 1976 ) reviewed the position of climatology in geography teaching and research and suggested : |
| 12 | A member of staff said that the patients could not be evacuated out of the town as it Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 was cut-off . |
| 13 | Broadcasting is pre-eminent , at least in the ever-creative medium of radio ; but television borrows from abroad as much as it creates at home . |
| 14 | For the Christian this will mean entering into a dialogue with God 's word as it touches on issues requiring change , which we shall be investigating later . |
| 15 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
| 16 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 17 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 18 | The subscribers ought to be allowed the ‘ free entrance of light into these their pleasure houses as it steals from heaven without embargo or blockade . ’ |
| 19 | In so far as it distinguished between night and day , it was active at night . |
| 20 | Nigel Cramer had had time to warn Quinn , speaking from his car as it sped towards Scotland Yard . |
| 21 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's very interested in the scanner as it helps with sports injuries , ’ said Mr Prescott . |
| 23 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 24 | I imagined his grandfather leading his tribe as it migrated from Al Ain to Abu Dhabi , then on to the Liwa and beyond towards Qatar . |
| 25 | The federal army has this week strung a massive presence of men , artillery and tanks along the road from Serbia as it surges into Bosnia to help local Serb barons grab swathes of territory . |
| 26 | FRESH ATTEMPTS to break the ambulance pay dispute deadlock are expected to coincide tomorrow with a health service union lobby of the Conservative Party conference as it opens in Blackpool , writes Helen Hague . |
| 27 | Each case is monitored as it progresses from arrest to final disposal . |
| 28 | He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass . |
| 29 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 30 | As it trundled towards Wandsworth , Ginny thought about Christmas . |