Example sentences of "as it [verb] in [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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have no bridles , the main and only spar is at the extreme leading edge and improved efficiency as it curves in flight . |
| 7 | Would not it be a disaster if Russia ended up having to pay as much in interest rates as it received in aid ? |
| 8 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 9 | The social welfare system as it operates in practice leads women to low-paid jobs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown . |
| 13 | Socialism , as it developed in Britain , had little distinctive contribution to make to the formulation of foreign policy . |
| 14 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 15 | What would happen if something went wrong there , as it had in America , people began to ask . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 18 | Iraq had made a formal request ( as it had in July — see p. 39026 ) for the easing of the embargo which , it claimed , had caused numerous civilian deaths owing to the lack of essential food and medical supplies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |
| 21 | It is suggested that the law should not demand " but-for " causation as it does in homicide . |
| 22 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 23 | But in West Germany they are not political votes in the same overriding sense , because the outcome of constituency elections does not determine , as it does in Britain , how many seats each party will finally win . |
| 24 | An interaction exists just as it does in river processes . |
| 25 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 26 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 27 | Restaurants : Dutch cuisine is rich and creamy and comes in large portions ; pork does not dominate as it does in West Germany . |
| 28 | He believed , however , that the overdraft would dominate the lending market , as it does in France and Germany . |
| 29 | Th the will be other new schemes that were , not yet come forward , because the local media have not , erm , addressed a particular area , but as soon as it does in March or April , then the town conservatives would have done that next year . |
| 30 | 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 . |