Example sentences of "as it [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial . |
| 2 | It began to matter to Philip that Richard was a ‘ natural ’ : just as it mattered to the boy himself . |
| 3 | Well it was a good idea in as much as it returned to the people 's wishes did n't it ? |
| 4 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 5 | The drum disappeared beneath him and Marie thought he 'd lost it but as it shot to the surface Gazzer yelled : ‘ It 's pulling him free ! ’ |
| 6 | Perdita gave a gasp as it landed to the west of the pitch . |
| 7 | Its colour was of brilliant red on the left hand side , but dispersing as it went to the right ending up a pale green colour . |
| 8 | Making the statement , I was conscious of the silence in the House as it listened to the proposals . |
| 9 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |
| 10 | In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 11 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 12 | Parliament would also retain the ultimate right to cancel or vary a part or the whole of Community law as it applied to the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | As it fell to the floor through his Woolworth 's bag ( a startlingly original trick , that ) it was hard to decide whether Reeves or the town football club was bringing greater discredit to Darlington . |
| 14 | As it responded to the grassroot demand , its political objectives were largely forgotten . |
| 15 | As a form of enterprise entirely consistent with that thinking and with the given social order , Co-operation could command the support of John Stuart Mill just as much as it responded to the exhortation of Samuel Smiles . |
| 16 | The government 's new abrasiveness showed itself especially in industrial policy as it related to the trade unions . |
| 17 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Newcastle 's death in 1768 merely removed the most accomplished practitioner of the system ; the word ‘ party ’ only had political significance as far as it related to the following of great magnates . |
| 19 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 20 | However , when one comes to the duty to provide and ordain suitable trained attorneys and lawyers to equip the courts , the judges ' performance of that duty , in so far as it related to the provision of trained advocates , was executed through the relationship they developed with the Inns of Court . |
| 21 | It welcomes the public announcement of the identity of the new head of MI5 , but calls on the Government to make a full statement about Stella Rimington 's role , particularly as it related to the activities of Mr. David Hart , during the 1984 strike . |
| 22 | The government consistently refused demands from many quarters to reform the NSA but in October 1989 the DJP did agree to support a revision of the law as it related to the Agency for National Security Planning . |
| 23 | A significant proportion of this cost would not actually be incurred in the current financial year , as it related to the need for future replacement of equipment or ammunition . |
| 24 | Tullow Oil slipped 0.5p to 17.5p as it moved to the USM . |
| 25 | As it deepened to the random of the East Shaft top landing station a connecting tunnel was driven between the two and sinking debris was now brought out at this point and tipped on the fellside . |
| 26 | Residents in nearby villages had watched as it plummeted to the ground , frighteningly near their homes . |
| 27 | And as it slumped to the stairs , it realised at last that the girl was also somehow connected with the storm . |
| 28 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 29 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 30 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |