Example sentences of "it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 2 | This was no minor commitment ; nor was it treated as such . |
| 3 | It has n't eaten though the whole $30m it got as a dowry to start up . |
| 4 | It was immediately obvious that as the Cayman quarter mostly comprised aluminium , it registered as a foil on the meter of my Whites 5900 Di Pro SL . |
| 5 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 6 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 7 | Let us now suppose that our government falls under the influence of economists who advise it to treat as a trade off relation in the manner outlined above . |
| 8 | ‘ The refinancing secures the future operation of the Norsk Data group enabling it to continue as an independent and viable group . |
| 9 | She was a little disappointed in its capacity in relation to its size , for it cheated as a false-bottomed suitcase cheats . |
| 10 | Leaving aside our personal addiction , we have acknowledged ( as parents ) the convenience it represents as an electronic nanny ; also the entertainment it provides ( leaving precious time for parents to do chores and entertain themselves ) . |
| 11 | Celibacy is , at best , the lesser evil ; by no means is it regarded as a panacea . |
| 12 | It read as if having to play auntie instead of Schumann first gave her the idea of coming over — Here 's our hunter home from the hill . ’ |
| 13 | So just because you 've got those it does n't mean that 's what you are and that 's the way you 're always going to be it 'll change and it 'll change as time goes on it change as your role changes . |
| 14 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 15 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 16 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 17 | Major Malcolm Wallace , the British Olympic equestrian team manager , said last night : ‘ I 'm sure she will do everything in her power to keep equestrianism where it belongs as a strong and integral part of the Olympic movement . ’ |
| 18 | Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be perceived as stressed , and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-unit . |
| 19 | The only condition is that fifty acres of it remain as woodland . |
| 20 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 21 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 22 | Christianity , as it arose as a messianic reform movement within Judaism in the first century AD , had some characteristics of an early reform Judaism . |
| 23 | It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century . |
| 24 | Editor , — Zaid P Shehab and Ahmes L Patior describe the papillary lesion of the hard palate in the photograph on the Minerva page as a condyloma acuminatum and imply that it arose as a result of orogenital intercourse . |
| 25 | It met as a kind of annual conference . |
| 26 | A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant . |
| 27 | It changed as the Dornier accelerated away from them , and took on a rhythmic throbbing as it left the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 29 | As with the verbs of perception , then , to is used here to evoke an abstract before/after relation of condition to consequence , and the movement it signifies as a potential in tongue is actualized with a final interception . |
| 30 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |