Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |
| 2 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 3 | This is where AEA 's dual energy x-ray absorptiometry — DXA — comes in , as it offers orthopaedic surgeons a safe and accurate method to investigate the outcome of surgery at a much earlier stage . |
| 4 | Or , you can simply relax at the hotel as it offers excellent amenities for a comfortable holiday . |
| 5 | Detailed ultrasound scanning has been shown to be cost effective as it detects most cases of Down 's syndrome as well as other life threatening conditions . |
| 6 | As for what it gets in return , Spain gets little farm money , as it has few rich farmers ( who get most from Europe 's upside-down farm policy ) and little research and development money , as it lacks high-class laboratories . |
| 7 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Teleworking is innovative as it allows qualified women to come back to work in senior positions . |
| 9 | Blocking will not usually increase the probability of having to read data from a given track , except insofar as it allows more records to be stored on that track . |
| 10 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 11 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 12 | Questioning the nature of the issue under study is an important part of research as it clarifies initial concepts and examines the definitions employed . |
| 13 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 14 | Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 16 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 17 | The bluefin is heavily fished as it fetches high prices in Japan where it is sold for as much as $40 a pound . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 19 | It was released in 1990 , and is written in C. Secretary of the British APL Association , Anthony Camacho , claims that J is less complicated as it uses fewer symbols than APL — its syntax analyser takes up only one page of C , while other versions take up enormous amounts . |
| 20 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 21 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 22 | What ‘ Back In Denim ’ is really saying as it launches spiteful attacks on Duran Duran and mourns David Cassidy 's retirement , is that Pop Music Is Important , as much a part of our lives , our personalities as the polluted air we breathe and the clothes we choose to wear . |
| 23 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
| 24 | DEC says it wo n't shy from promoting and advertising the add-on to potential customers , as it believes large corporates and telecommunications firms , some which specify SVR4 in any case , are already interested in the personality . |
| 25 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 26 | Babies have very immature immune systems and rely upon breast milk to make up for this deficiency as it contains protective factors . |
| 27 | Tidy up borders , but wait until spring before taking dead foliage off herbaceous plants , as it protects new shoots . |
| 28 | However , he does use his recollection of the journey over Ratagan , his eyes filled with mountains , to reflect in the Journey generally upon the condition of remoteness as it affects human beings , and thereby touches the core of his reasons for travelling . |
| 29 | Eucalyptus oil will also help patients with a cold as it clears nasal passages . |
| 30 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |