Example sentences of "as it [vb -s] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There are a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issues facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
2 | Praxsys is one of a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issue facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
3 | ‘ Men who are rappers have to be sexist or they 're gon na lose their credibility , so they 're gon na continue to dis women for as long as it proves their manhood . |
4 | Watch your spider as it builds its web . |
5 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |
6 | Birthday Offering Precise and accurately placed enchaînements and éaulement give a clear definition to each step and pose as it takes its place in a perfectly balanced design . |
7 | The Tour du Mont Blanc is a high altitude rollercoaster route on a grand scale involving long ascents , high passes ( some over 8,000ft ) and equally long descents , as it picks its way through the seven main valleys — and three countries — which surround the massif . |
8 | This obscures the true nature of Eliot 's life , just as it diminishes his poetry . |
9 | But , as it digests its food , the House Dust Mite produces potent allergens in its alimentary canal , which are released in its faecal pellets . |
10 | It is much more likely that the pharmaceutical industry will support such analysis as it perceives its interests as being threatened ( Drummond , 1989/90 ) . |
11 | Flying the flag : The Fijian team celebrates as it retains its grip on the Cup for the third year in succession : ( l-r ) Fijian supporter , Waisale Serevi , Tomasi Cama , Vesito Rauluni ( captain ) , Mesake Rasari , Viliami Rauluni , Filimone Seru , Ratu Sakeasi ( front ) . |
12 | The revival of the US as a great nation at the centre of world trade will also have an impact on the port of Liverpool , as it continues its fight back to become a key staging post on the transfer of goods across the Atlantic and around the globe . |
13 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
14 | Reaching these peoples , of course , first required running the gauntlet of a bureaucracy which treats ethnographic film-makers with the same distrust as it does their subjects . |
15 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
16 | Luciano Pavarotti is one of the stars visiting Glasgow during 1990 , as it celebrates its year as cultural capital of Europe CAPTION FOR TABLOID PAGE34 The Dinosaur Roadshow is on display at Newcastle : see Events |
17 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
18 | When plants are cleared from an ecosystem effects animals as it reduces their food resources and thereby creating competition and by sometimes cutting down their shelter and natural habitat forcing them to move to areas where they ca n't survive . |
19 | The RIBA is in good company as it finalises its plans for obligatory CPD . |
20 | Begin by stitching the longer length on the left hand side , bringing it under Teddy 's chin and tucking the shorter length under it as it crosses his shoulder . |
21 | I watch , entranced as it gurgles its way |
22 | A day of prayer is important as it changes our pattern of prayer and as it changes our concerns week by week and year by year . |
23 | A day of prayer is important as it changes our pattern of prayer and as it changes our concerns week by week and year by year . |
24 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
25 | We begin to take his word — the Bible — seriously , as it becomes our light and guide in our daily prayer and communion with God . |
26 | We all know , though , how a singing bird makes us feel and we can imagine how the bird feels as it throws its song out into the air . |
27 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
28 | The male bicolour damselfish flexes the muscles attached to its swim bladder as it patrols its patch of coral reef . |
29 | It is vital to the understanding of company needs that those engineers responsible for design , development and manufacture make direct contact with the world of the user and the competitor in sufficient depth to have valid views on the market as it affects their tasks . |
30 | Thank you , Lord , that you control the work of public and private industry as it affects us day by day , in our homes , in our neighbourhoods , at work . |