Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subscribers ought to be allowed the ‘ free entrance of light into these their pleasure houses as it steals from heaven without embargo or blockade . ’ |
| 2 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 3 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 4 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 5 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 6 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 7 | A Marylebone-Manchester express approaches the Manchester suburbs as it passes through Dinting Station headed by EMI No. 27006 on 12th April 1958 . |
| 8 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 9 | ( The purchase of Treasury bills takes money out of the money markets as it flows to the government , therefore sales of Treasury bills during a shortage creates a greater shortage . |
| 10 | Consequently the project became as concerned with curriculum issues as it did with linguistic ones . |
| 11 | Would not it be a disaster if Russia ended up having to pay as much in interest rates as it received in aid ? |