Example sentences of "as it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awareness of the possible truth of paradox is a most helpful way in to appreciating the nature of religious language as it wrestles to express experience . |
| 2 | The fact that unsatisfied demand is itself a complex and unresolved problem for librarians does not diminish the problem as it relates to stock logistics . |
| 3 | Ending the decades-long full employment tradition , IBM Corp on Tuesday formally laid off 1,400 employees at its Kingston and Poughkeepsie , New York mainframe plants , as it continued to notify workers of layoffs at its East Fishkill plant , where 4,000 jobs are to be cut in a combination of layoffs , transfers and voluntary redundancy by May 31 . |
| 4 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 5 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 6 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 7 | He said it was essential that world business " should have an institutional mechanism enabling it to speak with a powerful voice as it seeks to influence governments and international organisations . " |
| 8 | The shrinkage of lava as it cools produces joints . |
| 9 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 10 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 11 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 12 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 13 | Then , as abruptly as it had pitched camp , the caravan moved on . |
| 14 | Lakatos 's account fares slightly better in this respect insofar as it does offer means by which some decisions of the scientific community might be criticized . |
| 15 | But notice that position A is socially preferred to B or C , involving as it does lower prices and greater output for both products . |
| 16 | The exhibition displays the as yet unwritten history of painting in the two Germanies , combining as it does abstract expressionists like H.Bachmayer , H.Prem and H.Sturm from the Munich ‘ Herzogstraße ’ group with works by C.Claus , G.Kozik , M.Morgner and S.Volmer from Chemnitz in Saxony . |
| 17 | Remarkably , its arguments began to sound like those of the Central Electricity Generating Board , as it sought to cast doubt on the very existence of an acid rain problem . |
| 18 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 19 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 20 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 21 | East Midlands Electricity today announced a major reorganisation of its core electricity business as it aims to save £10m annually in operating costs . |
| 22 | This is no mean achievement as it means achieving Guild membership consistently for five successive years . |
| 23 | Christopher also seemed to indicate that the United States and its allies were considering a programme to provide Russia a kind of social safety net as it moves to free markets . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) recently said to the House , rather chillingly , that if Labour were re-elected it would treat the national health service as it did last time . |
| 25 | That idea raises three interlinked questions , answers to which should enlarge our understanding of social change as it has affected family relationships . |
| 26 | The report describes the guidance as ‘ unhelpful ’ , as it has left SSDs wondering whether recording unmet need will plunge them into costly judicial reviews . |
| 27 | X/Open says it is taking DCE on the same terms as it has taken object specifications from OMG . |
| 28 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 29 | It has been a noble role , as it has allowed people grants and cash to fix the level of care that they want . |
| 30 | As it fails to enable Alan to take reasonable care for his own safety it will not have this effect . |