Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " . |
| 2 | A robotic dispenser arm was whirring nervously and jabbing into Bernice 's neck as it tried to locate an item that was n't there from a shelf that had been removed . |
| 3 | The preoccupation with the establishment and maintenance of civilisation and true religion is a central feature of Spenser 's poem as it is with his political tract . |
| 4 | This may be called the " ambulance effect " because its most familiar manifestation is the sudden drop in pitch of an ambulance 's siren as it speeds past the listener . |
| 5 | ‘ I expected it , sir , ’ she said , ‘ with Mrs Browning 's health as it is . ’ |
| 6 | The cameraman is recording a ‘ cut on action ’ which is centred on the little girl 's hand as it reaches down to pat the goat . |
| 7 | The goal of collecting naturalistic language data is , by definition , to capture a sample of the child 's language as it occurs under ordinary , everyday conditions . |
| 8 | Stadtverkehr im Wandel meaning Town traffic in change began by stressing the role of streets in a child 's growth as it learned ‘ to be at home in the town ’ . |
| 9 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 10 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 11 | Another TSR , Certify , can be used to compare a file 's checksum as it is opened , with a previous calculated checksum . |
| 12 | We are also able to detect the change in shape of the eye 's lens as it focuses on an object . |
| 13 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 14 | Coleridge 's cottage as it may have appeared early in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Ground-floor plan of Coleridge 's cottage as it probably appeared in 1797–8 . |
| 16 | The crosses erected at stages on the route of St Louis 's body as it came from Tunis to Paris for burial at St Denis were ‘ freely imitated in the Eleanor crosses of England ’ . |
| 17 | Style is as crucial to the accountant 's report as it is to ( for instance ) the job application . |
| 18 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 19 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 20 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 21 | This is a case in which we distinguish between a person 's body as it appears to that person , and as it appears to others . |
| 22 | But from his identifying a person 's body as it appears to that person with that person 's ‘ introspected self ’ , it would seem that Mace can not mean what is ordinarily meant by the former phrase . |
| 23 | Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers . |
| 24 | As far as nudity was concerned they quickly accepted it in Josephine 's act as it seemed such a natural part of her but their attitudes were quite prudish when confronted with the nudes backstage . |
| 25 | A car rigged with an estimated 330lbs of explosive ripped through Muawad 's motorcade as it passed through the Sanaya district of the predominantly Muslim West Beirut . |
| 26 | A car rigged with an estimated 330lbs of explosive ripped through Muawad 's motorcade as it passed through the Sanaya district of the predominantly Muslim West Beirut . |
| 27 | I grabbed Shifty-Eyes ' foot as it landed again and hung on . |
| 28 | Jed stared at McGowan 's face as it tilted and leered , all blocks of colour and deep shadows . |
| 29 | If your flats do not have this communal facility , however , where do you store all the week 's rubbish as it accumulates ? |
| 30 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |