Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a review of climatology as it relates to geography Terjung ( 1976 ) reviewed the position of climatology in geography teaching and research and suggested : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | In so far as it distinguished between night and day , it was active at night . |
| 11 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 12 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 13 | Each case is monitored as it progresses from arrest to final disposal . |
| 14 | He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass . |
| 15 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 16 | They have no bridles , the main and only spar is at the extreme leading edge and improved efficiency as it curves in flight . |
| 17 | — as it takes into account the point that I have just made . |
| 18 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 19 | Would not it be a disaster if Russia ended up having to pay as much in interest rates as it received in aid ? |
| 20 | As it pounds through Granite Rapid , the Colorado River gives every appearance of being a wild and untamed torrent , but this is an illusion . |
| 21 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 22 | The social welfare system as it operates in practice leads women to low-paid jobs . |
| 23 | In particular , human performance within systems is impossible to predict with any precision and details of this performance as it occurs in practice or on simulators is the only basis for prediction on matters such as safety and system reliability either for the current system or for future systems . |
| 24 | We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling . |
| 25 | In all plantation systems the question of labour is of vital interest to those who run the estates and the research is especially concerned with how the attitudes , beliefs and values held by planters lay behind the relationship between management and its work-force as it developed over time . |
| 26 | The Bill contained some departures from the Wheatley proposals and there were further amendments as it passed through Parliament . |
| 27 | Dr Obelkevich in a detailed study of rural Lincolnshire has shown that the " religious realm " of the rural poor reached beyond Christianity to " encompass an abundance of pagan magic and superstition " which was integrated with a Christian doctrine itself not left unchanged as it passed from church to cottage . |
| 28 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 29 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 30 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |