Example sentences of "as it [verb] [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 | The war of resolutions overshadowed the Congress , which should have ended proceedings yesterday but which is expected to continue until the end of the week , as it discusses amendments to the Russian constitution . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The car joined the evening traffic as it swung south-east towards Moscow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 13 | My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation . |
| 14 | The wind was rising again , mocking the arrival of spring as it lashed rain against the windows . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , as it diverts resources from historical and current expenditure items and therefore continuing provision , it is essential that it rests on the establishment of carefully planned priorities which are important to the school 's development . |
| 17 | The concept of the ‘ biographical career ’ is central to this approach as it allows consideration of the uniqueness of individual biographies , the meanings which individuals attach to the concepts of age and ageing , and how these change over time ( Johnson , 1978 ; Fairhurst and Lightup , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Thus , the concept of career is essential to an understanding of the impact of ageing on the experience of long-term disability as it allows consideration of how people 's subjective experiences are shaped over time . |
| 19 | We discover that prayer grows as it keeps pace with the moral and emotional changes within us . |
| 20 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |
| 21 | As it takes time for these reactions to occur , one country 's acid rain may be the result of another 's emissions . |
| 22 | ( As it takes place within an overall structure of hierarchy and private ownership it is clear why the principle can only be described as quasi-democratic . ) |
| 23 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |
| 24 | Precisely because we are forced , in order to model these relations , into defining design activity as it takes place in its real context — that of the social — and do not attempt to abstract it , to isolate it from these relations , we find we build a model of designing that has surprising efficacy in application to questions of design method . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 27 | The magic faded away — slowly , over the millenia , releasing as it decayed myriads of sub-astral particles that severely distorted the reality around it … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 30 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |