Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Then , as abruptly as it had pitched camp , the caravan moved on .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 David Beaton poulticed it every time he could get the old man to stay at peace long enough , but as soon as it started to heal Eachuinn would be up and about , restless , until the deep puncture festered and broke out again .
12 ‘ There were a few dead sheep , which was quite unpleasant , and as it started falling dark , we heard rats .
13 It was a low budget production but drew a certain amount of attention as it attempted to explore spiritualism .
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