Example sentences of "as it [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | As it left Sarajevo the pilot realised that hostile gunners had ‘ locked-on ’ to the plane . |
4 | as it left Lloyd George wholly dependent on his allies . |
5 | This bold personal style distinguishes her , as it distinguished Lloyd George and Churchill , from other Prime Ministers . |
6 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
7 | This can be useful , as it allows Goblins to drive off charging enemy units with their Fanatics , and even enemy who are not panicked into fleeing away will be severely mauled . |
8 | And then Peters sank his own hideously transformed jaws into the thing 's arm as it lifted Cardiff . |
9 | THE Australian pack looked a mighty outfit as it blew Scotland to the four corners at both scrummage and line-out during their recent two-test series ( see pages 22 & 23 ) . |
10 | It also deprives the country of aid programmes of about $350 million a year , a modest sum in itself ; but as it represents IMF endorsement it is the key to unlocking further substantial bilateral aid to support the economy . |
11 | Until the nineteen-fifties this stream continued alongside Harcourt Bridge Road to join the River Nadder at Long Bridge , but has now been diverted , looking more like a canal as it dissects Elizabeth Gardens . |
12 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |
13 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
14 | And they tolerated Gustav — gave him a job on the land — as long as it kept Mina happy and she kept them happy . |
15 | containing as it does Professor Hoskins ' evocative explanation of the piece of the English landscape visible from the window of his study in Oxfordshire . |
16 | Crime and Punishment naturalizes the mystic brazenness of Sonya 's statement , as it does Porfiry 's ‘ You ca n't get on without us ' . |
17 | These show that it takes Dagenham nearly twice as long to produce a Sierra car as it does Ford 's Genk plant in Belgium . |
18 | The noisome dust-heaps represent enormous wealth , and the worship of wealth animates the Veneering circle with its traffic in shares , as it does Silas Wegg secretly investigating the dust-heaps , and even affects Bella Wilfer , who has to learn better before her marriage to the heir . |
19 | The power/knowledge critique of structuralism from French theoretical postmodernism , must as it rejects Althusser , also reject Habermas . |
20 | According to official accounts , Spartak Okopyan , 39 , was shot when a column of soldiers returned fire after coming under attack as it patrolled Stepanakert , now exclusively populated by Armenians . |
21 | As it happens Ive got a lot of time for honest people like Mr Bassett . |
22 | If that nose had pleased the gods as it pleased Caesar and Antony , a loose Alexandrian gnosticism might have prevailed instead of the Christian discipline imposed by the two Romes , the old one on the Tiber , and the new one on the Bosporus . |
23 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
24 | The petrol ignited immediately , a loud whump filling the room as it consumed Connelly 's body , which twisted insanely on the ropes as he screamed in uncontrollable agony . |
25 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
26 | on delivery from BREL York to Ilford , new class 321 emu No 321334 is reflected in the waters of the River Ouse as it passes Offord Cluney , near Huntingdon , on 31 March 1989 . |
27 | The EEC offered West Germany and its booming economy a huge outlet for its industrial goods , in the same way as it offered France some export benefits for its large agricultural sector . |
28 | The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume , the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face . |
29 | It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties . |
30 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |