Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 | It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill . |
| 3 | It read as follows ( Hansard , Official Report , Sixth Series ( 1983 ) , vol. 49 , pp. 256–257 , cols. 506–507 ) : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clinical research showed how far the human circulation behaved like that of other animals , and how it changed as diseases advanced . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have seen it regarded as something it could not be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Apricot really stole a march on the competition last September with a couple of new PCs it described as optimized for workgroup operation . |
| 15 | The court declined to adopt what it described as ‘ the geographic fiction ’ that discovery required mere acts of preparation abroad , and found the distinction between parties and non-parties equally lacking in merit as a basis for decision . |
| 16 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 17 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 18 | However , the agreements broke down almost immediately , the Armenian side on Feb. 4 declaring them null and void and suspending its participation in further talks in protest at what it described as attempts at " forced deportation " of Armenians from villages in Azerbaijan 's Khanlar region on the pretext that their security remained under threat . |
| 19 | Throughout 1989 China had been concerned at what it described as Taiwan 's " dollar diplomacy " aimed at " buying " recognition from a number of poorer countries . |
| 20 | The demands of the rebel RPF included the return home of all Rwandan refugees and the overthrow of the Habyarimana regime , which it described as " corrupt and incompetent " . |
| 21 | The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) held on Dec. 14-16 what it described as its 40th congress , and the second since the change of name from Bulgarian Communist Party in April 1990 . |
| 22 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 23 | It moved as the Germans advanced . |
| 24 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 25 | It adopted as its national anthem the former anthem of South Yemen , and as its flag the horizontal stripes of red , white and black , as used formerly by North Yemen , but without the green star in the centre . |
| 26 | It exploded as he hit the water , sending a geyser of water and blood into the air . |
| 27 | None of it spilled as Bonanza removed the cigar from his soft lips . |
| 28 | It advised as follows : " Listen to the client going apeshit about his experience of our investment recommendations , and agree with him … |
| 29 | It came as something of a shock in the late 1970s , when developments in the human rights situation around the world and the increase in groups worldwide and the increase in groups worldwide led to fewer prisoner cases being available for UK groups . |
| 30 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |