Example sentences of "as it [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 2 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 3 | It is mainly used as a phosphate source which , as it also contains some lime , has an alkaline reaction . |
| 4 | The use of ozone as a reactant in absorption systems is relatively new but one increasing in popularity as it reportedly requires lower dose rates and reaction times , is less susceptible to changes in water temperature and acidity or alkalinity and produces no harmful by-products . |
| 5 | But perhaps the breakdown in the city 's sense of itself is as useful an emblem as any for Europe as it uneasily approaches 1992 . |
| 6 | Even at the same time as it publicly commends higher education , seeking out the graduate entrant , spending large sums on publicity to this end , and funding access to degree courses on scholarships , it also holds to a central ethic of distrust of the academic . |
| 7 | Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open . |
| 8 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 9 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 10 | As it so happened another young scholar , one who 's life was to become inextricably bound up with the politics of Trinidad , was also just about to make the same journey . |
| 11 | As the problem stands , it is a little unfair , as it really conceals two parts : |
| 12 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |