Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 2 | Year round it is popular for walks as it exudes an elegant serenity inspired of the water and the graceful trees . |
| 3 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 4 | as if this were not bad enough , the great mudflow rolled on into the sea at the mouth of the Riviere Blanche , setting up a series of waves as it did so , one of which was powerful enough to capsize the yacht Precheur moored off the river mouth . |
| 5 | This too encourages the flow of savings as it gives savers the confidence that their savings will earn a good rate of interest . |
| 6 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 7 | The driver spun the wheel as the Mercedes reached the end of the row of parked cars and it skidded sideways , the left corner of the rear bumper crumpling in a flash of sparks as it glanced off the wall . |
| 8 | At that moment , with a shower of sparks as it hit the superstructure , the flare died . |
| 9 | It is included in this discussion of emotions as it represents the lowest state of emotional energy , as well as physical and mental energy . |
| 10 | I never asked her , but I do n't imagine oral penetration figured as high on her list of priorities as it did on mine , and she could probably have done without the anal variety altogether . |
| 11 | What we do find , however , is that women 's work is not so divorced from the work of men as it becomes in later times . |
| 12 | With or without the complicity of the government statutory services are performing a very limited role , However , we must not underestimate the potential role of services as it seems highly likely that propensity of the informal sector is enhanced rather than diminished by the support of statutory agencies . |
| 13 | This is not required if the relevant condition is that the parent undertaking holds a majority of the voting rights and holds the same proportion of shares as it holds voting rights |
| 14 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 15 | The car bucked and lunged against the flowered banks , shaking the two ofthem loose like dolls as it turned over and over . |
| 16 | Flt Lt Chris Huckstet ejected before the jet exploded into flames as it hit the runway at RAF Wittering near the busy A1 in Cambridgeshire . |
| 17 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 18 | It is especially good for people with allergies as it does n't harbour dust . |
| 19 | A senior US trade official said the decision to ditch the two-day talks made it more likely that the United States would go ahead with sanctions as it had threatened . |
| 20 | It just happens that published Welsh Office data on migration across the border is a good measure of the flight from cities as it affects Wales . |
| 21 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 22 | But for the institutions , he said , the initial aim would be to introduce a ten-day , rolling settlement system which could be reduced in stages as it became practical , first to five days and then to three days . |
| 23 | Appropriate educational material will continue to be co-ordinated , evaluated and distributed to schools as it becomes available . |
| 24 | More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers . |
| 25 | Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again , not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be ? |
| 26 | It is a language which has to be learned , and this applies just as much to audiences as it does to movie makers . |
| 27 | She put all the motors through the vertical jets , and prayed that the speeder would n't blow apart or shake to bits as it lurched up the side of the building . |
| 28 | Much of what has been discussed in this section applies as much to children as it does to teaching staff . |
| 29 | No one ever looked ‘ a little lovelier each day with fabulous new Camay ’ — a bar of green Fairy soap worked as well on faces as it did on floors . |
| 30 | The Warrington-based group has spent more than £100m on acquisitions as it repositions itself for an upturn in the economy and yesterday it added to the line-up with The Crossroads hotel and restaurant at Weedon , Northampton , for £1.5m and South Marston Country Club near Swindon for £800,000 . |