Example sentences of "as it [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He considered leaving the rucksack on the train , but as it contained several of his favourite Fair Isle jumpers , and this was bonny Scotland after all , he thought better of it and shouldered the thing . |
| 2 | This I much regret as it contained some of the most valuable things you had collected viz. the bird you call the Whiteheaded Swallow , all the Cinclosomas etc . |
| 3 | This orang utan demonstrates its ability to grasp efficiently with both hands and feet — a useful trick as it spends most of its life in the trees . |
| 4 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 5 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 6 | Happily this is not a serious drawback and the set is strongly recommended , containing as it does some of the most sensitive and intelligent Fauré playing on CD . ( ) |
| 7 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
| 8 | Eating live yoghurt may also be worthwhile as it contains some of the ‘ useful ’ members of the gut flora , and may help to reestablish a healthy balance among the inhabitants of the gut ( see p 194 ) . |
| 9 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 10 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 11 | A considerable number of the newly enfranchised capital class now ally their interests with the top echelons of society , rather than help sustain the old political coalition of interests , encompassing as it did much of the working class , and significant parts of the lower-middle and middle class . |
| 12 | Chlamydia trachomatis provides the one bright light on the horizon as it satisfies most of the criteria needed for a causative agent in non-gonococcal infection . |
| 13 | Let us look at this problem of the nature of phenomena in more detail as it explains some of the difficulties faced by social researchers . |
| 14 | VauDe Space takes less than five minutes to put up as it erects all in one |
| 15 | The first public meeting in Cambridge was warned by the Dean-designate of St Paul 's , the Reverend Professor Inge , that unless controls limited the reproduction of the ‘ urban proletariat ’ , it ‘ may cripple our civilisation as it destroyed that of ancient Rome ’ . |
| 16 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |