Example sentences of "as it [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 2 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
| 3 | As it says in the original rules : |
| 4 | C is the velocity of light , as it says in ‘ Space Time ’ , the way we measure the velocity of light , and therefore I am the bringer of light , the prince of light , Lucifer himself . ’ ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , as it says in the books , it could augur good . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As it says in the Bible , ‘ God is no respecter of persons ’ , Romans 2–11 . |
| 7 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 8 | As it says in the article You own house and live in Surrey your surviving spouse is not going to get a great deal of the house . |
| 9 | Mabel often quoted lines of poetry to make her point , and whether they came from Tennyson , Keats , Wordsworth or Rupert Brooke , she always prefaced them with ‘ As it says in the Bible . ’ |
| 10 | To have towering , snow-spattered mountains everywhere you look , to gaze down into valleys , dotted — as it says in the brochures — with carved wooden chalets with roofs like lyres — to have all this and chocolate , too , is almost obscene . |
| 11 | As it says in the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , " So our troubles , we think , are basically of our own making . |
| 12 | But , as , as , as it says in the report which we 've had this evening , a bit of flexibility , a bit of balance . |
| 13 | In Oxfordshire with regard to drug misuse , well , as it says in this report er the main drug of misuse is alcohol , and we also have quite a problem with minor tranquillizer dependents . |
| 14 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 15 | It 's not Marxism because what we actually have now in a Maoist Communist Party , as it emerges in the course of the nineteen thirties , is a leadership composed not of socialist working class militants but of intellectuals whose prime motivation is that they are modernizing nationalists . |
| 16 | However , in a key passage intended to highlight the Alliance 's " transatlantic " character , the communiqué also stipulated the " necessary transparency and complementarity between the European security and defence identity as it emerges in the Twelve and the WEU , and the Alliance " . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 18 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 19 | Feathers flurried to the ground as it struggled in his hands . |
| 20 | The long blade sang its death song , as it whirled in a gleaming figure-of-eight . |
| 21 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 22 | The church figured in this document only in the same general terms as it figured in Magna Carta ; there was one reference to prohibitions , but begging still the question of what were temporalities and what were not . |
| 23 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 24 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 25 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 26 | As long as it , as long as it goes in |
| 27 | Courage with its string of Bulk brews from John Smiths to Fosters now talks of a formidable challenge as it reorganizes in the face of a four percent drop in total British beer sales a year . |
| 28 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 29 | FRESH ATTEMPTS to break the ambulance pay dispute deadlock are expected to coincide tomorrow with a health service union lobby of the Conservative Party conference as it opens in Blackpool , writes Helen Hague . |
| 30 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |