Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 2 | The closing words of the subsection as it now stands , providing that ‘ in determining whether accommodation is suitable they shall have regard to Part IX ( slum clearance ) , X ( overcrowding ) and XI ( houses in multiple occupation ) of this Act ’ seem to me to call unmistakably for the exercise by the local authority of a subjective judgment as to what constitutes suitable accommodation . |
| 3 | The modification of the programme had angered Finance Minister Theodor Stolojan and Trade and Industry Minister of State Anton Vatasescu , and on March 20 they had tendered their resignations , complaining that the programme as it now stood was insufficiently radical . |
| 4 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 5 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 6 | The rule as it now stands is a contradiction . |
| 7 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 8 | When a new consciousness is brought about it should n't bring about historical amnesia as it often does . |
| 9 | There are also rivers for which LAOs have not attempted to make agreements on the grounds that there are no problems or there is not sufficient demand , all very well until someone decides to apply the letter of the law as it presently stands . |
| 10 | Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands . |
| 11 | What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day . |
| 12 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 13 | ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; … |
| 14 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 15 | This budget is extremely useful for management as it clearly sets out the short-term objectives and targets for the forthcoming budget period and is in a form that is easy to comprehend . |
| 16 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 17 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 18 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 19 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 20 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 21 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 22 | Today his walk did not hold his attention as it usually did . |
| 23 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 24 | He is modernity as it now exists in that part of the world . |
| 25 | He strove to keep his face from that wall as it inexorably pulled him closer . |
| 26 | His rangy , graceless figure , over six feet high , still looked as incongruous in a formal suit as it always had . |
| 27 | Call a wigeon-like double whistle , ‘ whittou ’ , but often flies silently , and so escapes detection when flighting to water as it usually does , after dark and before dawn . |
| 28 | Coming from the western Pacific Ocean , it appears to be fished from fairly deep water as it usually swims ‘ tail light ’ when first received into aquarium life . |
| 29 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 30 | Throughout the preparation days you will be establishing a baseline record of your eating and exercise behaviour as it normally occurs . |