Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 2 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 3 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
| 4 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 5 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
| 6 | For this reason EC Directives in the 1960s provided for the repeal of such legislation ( in so far as it affected nationals of member states ) as the requirement of West German law that foreign companies wishing to pursue business activities in West Germany must obtain special authorisation from the West German authorities . |
| 7 | There were some suggestions that a lower rate of population increase , from the decline in the UK birth rate after 1964 , was a cause of economic decline , as it reduced demand for the purchase of consumer durables . |
| 8 | She was making for the telephone box outside the Broken Dolls Hospital when she heard the puttering of a motorcycle engine as it reduced speed in the gutter behind her . |
| 9 | The car joined the evening traffic as it swung south-east towards Moscow . |
| 10 | The Kinshasa demonstration followed calls from the opposition alliance , the Sacred Union , for popular protest in support of the national conference as it rejected proposals for its replacement outlined by Prime Minister Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond . |
| 11 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | The wind was rising again , mocking the arrival of spring as it lashed rain against the windows . |
| 13 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 14 | THE Australian pack looked a mighty outfit as it blew Scotland to the four corners at both scrummage and line-out during their recent two-test series ( see pages 22 & 23 ) . |
| 15 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 16 | The magic faded away — slowly , over the millenia , releasing as it decayed myriads of sub-astral particles that severely distorted the reality around it … |
| 17 | Half-year results from British Gas left the group a penny weaker at 329p although RTZ , the world 's biggest mining group , added 4p to 721p as it produced profits in line with the City 's expectations . |
| 18 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 19 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 21 | Back in the scullery to the left of the lavatory door , coal was stored beneath a window ; a convenient spot as it had walls on three sides , with loose boards which fitted into slots at either end forming the front . |
| 22 | Terre Lliure , which was reported to have 60-100 members , had renounced its armed campaign on July 6 , as it negotiated integration with the ERC . |
| 23 | The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume , the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face . |
| 24 | It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties . |
| 25 | As it transpired hopes of European economic recovery were amply fulfilled after 1948 . |
| 26 | The ferry had reportedly sunk almost immediately on hitting coral reefs as it approached Safaga at around midnight . |
| 27 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 28 | On the other hand , Woolworth to Comet group Kingfisher bounced 3p to 544p as it reported profits in line with forecasts . |
| 29 | On the coach , as it headed north up the Woodstock Road , and thence out on to the A34 , the members of the touring party were mostly silent , their thoughts monopolised perhaps by the strange and tragic events they had left behind them in Oxford . |
| 30 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |