Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies , with one small difference , to hire contracts as it does to contracts of sale of goods , hire purchase , barter and exchange , etc . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , it is easier to learn and use the keyboard equivalents of the mouse movements to activate menus as it saves having to remove your hands from the keyboard . |
| 3 | It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work . |
| 4 | The December package also angered employers as it eliminated tax concessions and protection for the vehicle assembly industry , while imposing higher corporate income tax and social security contributions . |
| 5 | This country spends four times as much money importing weapons as it does on health . |
| 6 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 7 | Underlying inflation , which provides a better guide to cost pressures as it excludes volatile mortgage interest rates , was slightly stronger at 3.4 per cent , up from 3.2 per cent in January . |
| 8 | However , it will produce results as it stops the club rolling over and generating topspin — something you definitely do n't want when you are trying to play a shot which places a premium on accuracy . |
| 9 | RSPB official Stan Davies said : ‘ The area is important to migrating and wintering birds as it remains frost-free . ’ |
| 10 | Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister with responsibility for broadcasting , said the Government could have directly appointed members as it does with the BBC and the ITC , but decided — after pressure from Channel 4 — not to do so . |
| 11 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 12 | Formally , the House is free to pass or reject bills as it wishes . |
| 13 | During his career , the Master of Stair showed himself to be willing and able to flow or turn with the prevailing political tide , changing sides as it suited his purpose or ambition . |
| 14 | In political terms , the relationship between the family and the state has always included at its core both the right of the family to raise children as it sees fit , and the corresponding right of the state to intervene if the family 's care or control falls short of what the state requires . |
| 15 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |