Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | Now , however , with only a passenger service remaining , the railway has as much relevance to the life of the land through which it passes as do the aeroplanes overhead . |
2 | " 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 ) . |
3 | It grew and grew , but still kept to its tunnels , some of which it enlarged as it grew . |
4 | This is significant , because there has been a period during which it looked as though , because of the societies ' successful opposition in 1990 to the then Italian Foreign Secretary Gianni De Michelis 's plan to site Expo2000 in the Veneto , the Italian government would no longer pay for the Unesco office . |
5 | MI6 was greatly upset by Churchill 's decision to create Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , which it saw as infringing upon its sacred duties . |
6 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
7 | The European Tennis Association is studying ways of restoring the prestige of the old King 's Cup , now the European Men 's Team Championship , which it describes as ‘ … still the best opportunity for European tennis nations to test their top , and up-coming players in international team competition . ’ |
8 | The trend towards downsizing — which it describes as moving power down to the desktop level — is already more advanced in Europe than it is in the US , it claims , where the power of large corporations tends to prolong the supremacy of mainframes . |
9 | The commission believes the scheme will have a profoundly detrimental effect on the town , which it describes as of quite extraordinary quality and of exceptional architectural and historic interest . |
10 | If we are to find the answer to the problem of what gives stretches of language unity and meaning , we must look beyond the formal rules operating within sentences , and consider the people who use language , and the world in which it happens as well . |
11 | What is significant is the extension since 1979 of the range of issues in the first category which the Conservative leadership regards as ‘ high politics ’ , that is , which it regards as being within its own sphere of decision-making . |
12 | The NSA has a huge operation in Britain which it regards as one of its most important listening posts , being strategically placed to eavesdrop not only on East Europe but West Europe as well . |
13 | The Post Office uses a number of short-term investments with lives of over three months , but which it regards as highly liquid . |
14 | ( In Scotland the Crown at the moment does not have the power to appeal against sentences which it regards as too lenient , although moves are under way to give it such a right . ) |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
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 | 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 " . |
19 | Could you please tell me what it requires as regards decor and also how big is it likely to grow ? |
20 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |
21 | What it means as I said before , is that ten or fifteen years ago , that number of people got infected , so now ten fifteen years on , we usually multiply by at least a hundred , so we 're really talking about thousands of people living with H I V , and probably unaware of the fact that they have it . |
22 | The Campaign is lobbying for reforms that it thinks are needed to end what it sees as largescale use of misleading sales techniques used by the photocopier industry . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | What made it what it feel as though you 'd been walked over ? |