Example sentences of "it [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best .
2 By moving the feet around the board try and get your wake to be as quiet as possible and watch how it differs as you move your weight around .
3 It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill .
4 " And " is by no means always used in its Boolean sense ( consider " yachting and boating " ) , but " or " usually is so intended ( people use " or " rather than " and " when they do not see the concepts which it separates as being particularly closely related ) .
5 Well th maybe I should look at it seeing as I missed it .
6 If the rest of it goes as well then there 's every chance I 'll be forming a permanent group .
7 It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
8 It goes as follows ( 1968 II : 549 ) :
9 But it goes As you notice it goes off
10 ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’
11 If it goes as well as expected , decisions will have to be made this year on how best to scale up the operation and where to site the next expansion , he said .
12 Rosenbrock objects to the " automated manual " type of system since it represents as he says " loss of nerve , a loss of belief in human ability and a further unthinking application of the doctrine of the " division of labour " .
13 At the level of morality , is it regarded as proper to take self-interest into account when deciding whether to offer support to a relative , or to ask for it ?
14 It read as follows ( Hansard , Official Report , Sixth Series ( 1983 ) , vol. 49 , pp. 256–257 , cols. 506–507 ) :
15 It read as follows : I had spent many weary hours and weary days of negotiation before arriving at the point where I withdrew from acting as an adviser to the profession because the consultants had embarked on strike action .
16 For males sex may be very important , but for females reproduction may be , may be more significant if it involves as it does in the case of all mammals and certainly human beings , considerable parental investment on the part of the mother .
17 What claims does it make as to the universal applicability of its results ?
18 It became a desperate struggle to get them on ; the longer it took the more difficult it became as my fingers became numb and useless .
19 It creaked as it swung open .
20 It tastes as though it is .
21 I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another .
22 Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’
23 Clinical research showed how far the human circulation behaved like that of other animals , and how it changed as diseases advanced .
24 Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out .
25 If Britain wished to retain some semblance of leadership in Europe or even to maintain what it regarded as its special position there vis-à-vis the United States , some new arrangement would have to be found .
26 We have seen it regarded as something it could not be .
27 A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization .
28 The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] …
29 The ANC , while expressing delight at their decision , nevertheless continued to call for the dissolution of the tricameral parliament , which it regarded as essentially racist .
30 Apricot really stole a march on the competition last September with a couple of new PCs it described as optimized for workgroup operation .
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