Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be quite a useful preparation for a nervous or beginner skier as it relates the feeling of skiing to everyday activities , eg riding a bicycle and driving a car . |
| 2 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 3 | Shevers , who had already dropped the name Hawk 72 for the new aircraft , opting instead for ‘ Liberty ’ , says he is concerned that Textron , which already produces engines for light aircraft , may decide that resumption of single-engined aircraft production does not represent such an increase in its product liability exposure as it did for Cessna 's former parent General Dynamics . |
| 4 | It is important to consider the wider implications of the revenue support grant settlement as it applies to all London . |
| 5 | Strategic partnerships with software companies are the order of the day at Compaq Computer Corp as it tries to transform itself into a much more broadly-based systems manufacturer , and according to Computerworld , the latest is with Oracle Corp . |
| 6 | I find that the full needle welt is kinder to the mature figure ( like mine ) when it is to be followed by a tuck stitch fabric as it does not pull in so quite much as the 2x1 rib . |
| 7 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 8 | Another cherry , the double pink Kiku-shidare Sakura , no longer weeps gracefully over the terrace pond as it did for more than 20 years . |
| 9 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 10 | Further , in our system the rule ‘ stare decisis ’ applies as firmly to statute law as it does to the formulation of common law and equitable principles . |
| 11 | The only sounds were his footsteps on the stairs , the slamming of her front door followed by the noise of his car engine as it roared away from her flat . |
| 12 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 13 | That the pretended power of dispensing with lawes or the Execution of lawes by regall authority as it has been assumed and exercised of late is illegall . |
| 14 | Suddenly we were into daylight and right ahead of us the waters of the Jequetepeque ran brown and white , the river 's level close under the rails of the girder bridge as it flowed , deep and very fast , through the gorge . |
| 15 | She has also questioned the advice given to her to display her season ticket on her car dashboard as it amounts to an ‘ invitation to theft ’ . |
| 16 | Coffin hung on to the side of the car door as it swerved round a cyclist . |
| 17 | The lines joining these centres represent the directions of greatest tensile stress in the lava flow as it cools , and the hexagonal joint patterns are generated by cracks forming at right angles to these maximum stress lines . |
| 18 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 19 | Former Jazz Warriors and Courtney Pine band member , Robinson is also active in jazz-funk circles but this album nevertheless owes as much to jazz history as it does to today 's pop scene . |
| 20 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 21 | With experienced viewers this tended to lead to new visual discoveries and a concomitant extension of the construct system as it grappled with freshly perceived features . |
| 22 | The top part of the well section can not be seen from the entrance viewpoint as it lies behind the retaining wall and is covered by earth and vegetation . |
| 23 | It had n't helped the economics , of course , that the nuclear industry had shifted its allegiance from one reactor design to another , scattering new research expenditure as it went . |
| 24 | He heard a rifle fire and the police car shake as it absorbed the bullets . |
| 25 | A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system . |
| 26 | Therefore , in the current climate , the Income & Growth Personal Equity Plan [ PEP ] + offers an attractive investment option as it provides returns based upon stock market performance and you are able to take your proceeds completely free of UK personal income and capital gains tax . |
| 27 | We recommend that … there should be put on the statute book a ‘ definition ’ based on Lord Macnaghten 's classification , but preserving the case law as it stands . ’ |
| 28 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 29 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the lack of genuine progress toward peace in the region during the period 1967–88 casts doubt upon the validity of the peace process as it has been conceived . |