Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 2 | The subscribers ought to be allowed the ‘ free entrance of light into these their pleasure houses as it steals from heaven without embargo or blockade . ’ |
| 3 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 4 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 5 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 6 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 7 | It landed on the floor where it lay on its back , its numerous legs doing cycling motions as it tried to right itself . |
| 8 | The Parkside study relied upon readmissions which occurred within the three hospitals within the DHA and underestimates readmission rates as it excludes readmissions which happened outside the study area . |
| 9 | The ferry had reportedly sunk almost immediately on hitting coral reefs as it approached Safaga at around midnight . |
| 10 | ‘ We had over two inches of frosty snow on our sleeping bags as it kept blowing in the tent and we could n't close the door properly . |
| 11 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |
| 12 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 13 | When plants are cleared from an ecosystem effects animals as it reduces their food resources and thereby creating competition and by sometimes cutting down their shelter and natural habitat forcing them to move to areas where they ca n't survive . |
| 14 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 15 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 16 | Although the Iranian operation was stumbled into almost accidentally , even that policy evolved emotional and patriotic selling points as it went along . |
| 17 | Joshua made a note of Felicity 's brother 's telephone number just in case , and joined the queue of conference goers as it shifted sullenly forward step by step . |
| 18 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 19 | It is likely that some at least of nature s experiments as it sought to produce Homo sapiens were as intelligent as us , even though their type of intelligence may have been very different . |
| 20 | DUN & BRADSTREET TRIES TO REASSURE MAINFRAME CUSTOMERS AS IT MOULDS A NEW COMPANY |
| 21 | D&B TRIES TO REASSURE MAINFRAME CUSTOMERS AS IT MOULDS A NEW COMPANY |
| 22 | For the remainder of this section we shall develop the distinction between service industries and service occupations as it provides a useful starting-point to consider some of the major post-war trends in service employment . |
| 23 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
| 24 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 25 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 26 | The success of the variety multiples has meant that manufacturers have had to reappraise their sales channels as it has meant a concentration of purchasing power into fewer hands . |
| 27 | DEMONSTRATING the style for which West Yorkshire 's Keighley and Worth Valley Railway has become famous , standard Eight 48431 carries out passenger duties as it hauls Pullman dining stock up the five-mile branch . |
| 28 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 29 | The Health Service Centre should be your first port of call for all general career enquiries as it disseminates information on both basic and postbasic nursing education . |
| 30 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |