Example sentences of "as it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation . |
| 8 | It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity . |
| 9 | Product market signals can , however , be amplified by linking management remuneration to company performance , and thus while the market may be largely ineffective in so far as it offers threats , it can be made to function better by providing incentives . |
| 10 | Page 26 Next tumbles : Next 's pre-tax profits nearly halved to £16.2m at the halfway stage as it revealed problems rooted in overexpansion and poor merchandising . |
| 11 | But many people would no doubt argue that the current ‘ anything goes as long as it sells papers ’ style goes too far the other way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whether you consider industrialists to be the unprincipled rapists of Mother Earth , or see environmentalists as idealistic nutcases , there is little question that opinion and judgement , even prejudice , are at the heart of the environmental issue , at least as it confronts managers . |
| 14 | The extreme flexibility of the Course allows part-time students to change later to a full-time mode , just as it allows full-timers to drop down to part-time study . |
| 15 | The magic faded away — slowly , over the millenia , releasing as it decayed myriads of sub-astral particles that severely distorted the reality around it … |
| 16 | He provides a first-hand account of the board 's modus operandi as it developed recommendations that differed little from the promulgated National Institutes of Health guidelines but were turned into ‘ the first DNA legislation in the United States ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So the first day finished with me lying sleepless , listening to that familiar music coming from below as it had years before , the jazz records my mother used to play . |
| 19 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 20 | Back in the scullery to the left of the lavatory door , coal was stored beneath a window ; a convenient spot as it had walls on three sides , with loose boards which fitted into slots at either end forming the front . |
| 21 | All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation . |
| 22 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 23 | In other respects , Imagining Women does well by the visual image , including as it does sections on popular television , film and pornography . |
| 24 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
| 25 | Materialism brings in its wake as many problems as it does blessings . |
| 26 | A wide luff tube is not used as it hinders waterstarts when full of water . |
| 27 | As it cut jobs the company was hit by strikes , in 1986 and 1989 . |
| 28 | A multijunction cell , Solarex believes , should be more efficient as it uses layers of different crystals , each of which is optimised for a specific band of the visible light spectrum . |
| 29 | Abberley ( 1989 ) argues that the specific form of normality being advocated becomes disabling in itself as it inhibits expressions of difference . |
| 30 | Its drawback is the time involved , as it requires teachers to take register at each lesson by marking pink sheets that are then read into an optical mark reader . |