Example sentences of "the [noun sg] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if the income as it arose in each of the five years was paid out to Mr X that would have no tax consequences : he could not be assessed under TA 1988 , s739 as he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | As the law presently stands , it is open for a settlor to transfer assets overseas upon an accumulation trust for the benefit of his children without there being any UK tax liability on the income as it arises overseas . |
| 3 | The rebound fell to Williams whose effort scraped the upright as it went outside . |
| 4 | ‘ Good Joey , ’ he said to the parakeet as it chattered into wakefulness . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the couple in bed were so engrossed in each other that neither of them heard the fuse as it spluttered towards them . |
| 6 | He had initially been charged with assault and the rape indictment was added during the trial as it emerged that such a charge was appropriate . |
| 7 | ‘ Clearly , this is worrying for the board as it prepares to address the new objectives for 1992/93 . ’ |
| 8 | The rig should initially be inclined forwards and then drawn to the side of the board as it approaches the broad reaching position . |
| 9 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 10 | That government is the only institution now in a position to take possession of the funds and employ the money as it thinks fit for the best interest of the state . |
| 11 | Coolly , he thrust the point of his spear into the centre of the foaming maelstrom , and felt the resistance as it struck home . |
| 12 | It is far better to follow the analysis of Riccobono ( who was not by any means a radical interpolationist ) and admit that the text as it stands is not how Ulpian left it . |
| 13 | ‘ If Chelsea were to proceed with the ground-share as it stands , the legal position of the development would be in doubt . ’ |
| 14 | The general secretary of the EPRLF , K. Padmanabha , was also reported to have left Sri Lanka , along with other key officials , and to have gone to India , where thousands of EPRLF supporters were seeking refuge in fear of persecution by the LTTE as it moved into areas vacated by Indian troops . |
| 15 | But the glory will not fade from the Christian as it did from Moses . |
| 16 | Suddenly Anne thought of the kitchen as it had been throughout her childhood , a warm , secure and loving haven . |
| 17 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |
| 18 | ‘ Now we just monitor him , check the progress of the hook as it passes through . |
| 19 | Follow the lane as it bears right and across the farmyard , passing through a metal gate to the right of a white farm cottage . |
| 20 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 21 | Braced against the storm as it howled , he promised himself something . |
| 22 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |
| 23 | Long and low , with transept towers and a vaulted nave , the building as it stands today was largely the work of Bishop Grandison of Exeter , a ‘ magnificent and diligent prelate ’ who ruled over the diocese in the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | This is very convenient for the user as it requires the minimum of handling . |
| 25 | If we want to tell the gospel story as drama , as opposed to elucidating the truths of revelation in dogmatic theological form , then we have to take the story as it comes , neat . |
| 26 | 4–18 August : Archaeological Excavation , with guides to explain the story as it unfolds . |
| 27 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 28 | And Iran is as unpopular in the West as it has ever been . |
| 29 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 30 | A longer time period is probably advantageous to the acquirer as it enables a better assessment of assets to be made and gives time for undisclosed liabilities to appear . |