Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Day-to-day responsibility for administering the planning system as it relates to minerals rests with the mineral planning authorities ( MPAs ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's very interested in the scanner as it helps with sports injuries , ’ said Mr Prescott . |
| 9 | But during this time the pond started buzzing with activity as it filled with frogs , tadpoles , newts and pond skaters to name but a few . |
| 10 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 11 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 12 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 13 | Tit for Tat itself , indeed , came out top in five out of six runs of Round 3 , just as it had in Rounds 1 and 2 . |
| 14 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies to hire-purchase contracts in exactly the same way as it does to contracts of sale of goods . |
| 15 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies , with one small difference , to hire contracts as it does to contracts of sale of goods , hire purchase , barter and exchange , etc . |
| 16 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 17 | The layout can give as many messages to the pupils as it does to colleagues and senior management . |
| 18 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 19 | As for the bare infinitive , it can be shown that in all of its uses it implies — as it does in exclamations — that the extra-verbal support 's place in time can not be conceived as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 20 | It is one thing to mistake and misrepresent Jesus , clothed in all his humility as Son of Man ; it is one thing to misread his parabolic teaching , coming as it does in riddles . |
| 21 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 22 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 23 | Sadly , there turns out to be a sound explanation for this instruction it 's aimed at the club audience , who watch the show as it happens on banks of TV monitors . |
| 24 | The Derridean critique of logocentrism necessarily includes the concept of history insofar as it depends on notions of presence and meaning determined as truth . |
| 25 | The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas . |
| 26 | It rivals any Disney ride as it rattles through valleys , races round sheer-drop corners and roller-coasts its way from Bastia to Ile Rousse and Calvi . |
| 27 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 28 | In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind . |
| 29 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 30 | The modifications of the quality of acid rain as it passes through soils depends on the soil properties , organic matter , microbial activity and underlying rock . |