Example sentences of "as it [verb] [noun] " 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 | A fire was started on the ground floor , and , as it took hold , they ransacked offices and piled furniture and documents on a bonfire in the square outside . |
| 4 | The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions took temporary workers on board insofar as it took steps to develop a coherent policy on their use for recommendation to affiliated unions ( see IRS , 1986b ) . |
| 5 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 6 | Although the enclosure movement in all these forms was the last great revolution in the English landscape , radically changing much of the countryside as it took place , it also gave us a landscape which is aesthetically much more pleasing to most people . |
| 7 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
| 8 | The government of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda came under increasing pressure from Western governments to improve its human rights record as it took action to arrest the pro-democracy campaigner , Chakufwa Chihana , and to expel Mgr John Roche , Roman Catholic bishop-elect of Mzimba . |
| 9 | From some different world , she heard the bird 's song cease abruptly in mid-trill , and the startled flutter of its wings as it took flight , followed by the soft rustle of a breeze through the bushes . |
| 10 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 11 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
| 12 | He was interested in the music industry only insofar as it affected Virgin . |
| 13 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 14 | In fact it became standing room only as Mr Duncan Broady , curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum , gave a fascinating lecture about crime in the period , particularly as it affected Manchester and Salford . |
| 15 | Her concern with poverty , especially as it affected children , led to her writing The London Child ( 1927 ) and The Child Grows Up ( 1929 ) , studies of working-class life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | QUALITY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS EMPHASISES QUALITY AS IT DISCUSSES PATHFINDER PROSPECTUS FOR FULL LISTING |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All together , elbows in ribs , knees in calves , packed tight and swaying with the motion of the train as it struggled north . |
| 22 | In old accounting jargon , the left-hand column in the record of customers ' trading details was nicknamed ‘ query street ’ , as it contained question marks against the names of all those whose creditworthiness was suspect . |
| 23 | The car joined the evening traffic as it swung south-east towards Moscow . |
| 24 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The world is rejecting non-productive socialism as it rejected feudalism . |
| 27 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 28 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 29 | IBM 's emergency board meeting ousts the entire management , but Thanksgiving by IBM employees is short-lived as it appoints W Michael Blumenthal to succeed John Akers . |
| 30 | The BaByliss Epilady , £37 , works on a similar principle ; a soft metal coil is drawn over the skin and as it vibrates hairs are trapped within the coil and plucked out . |