Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [prep] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | In so far as it distinguished between night and day , it was active at night . |
| 7 | Nigel Cramer had had time to warn Quinn , speaking from his car as it sped towards Scotland Yard . |
| 8 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 9 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 10 | I imagined his grandfather leading his tribe as it migrated from Al Ain to Abu Dhabi , then on to the Liwa and beyond towards Qatar . |
| 11 | He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass . |
| 12 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 13 | As it trundled towards Wandsworth , Ginny thought about Christmas . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Would not it be a disaster if Russia ended up having to pay as much in interest rates as it received in aid ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Socialism , as it developed in Britain , had little distinctive contribution to make to the formulation of foreign policy . |
| 20 | The Bill contained some departures from the Wheatley proposals and there were further amendments as it passed through Parliament . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 25 | As it had for Hegel , consciousness again becomes a significant element in the process of history for Lukács . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | What would happen if something went wrong there , as it had in America , people began to ask . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |