Example sentences of "as it [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICELAND Group today warned that the UK food market is becoming increasingly competitive as it announced a jump in profits . |
| 2 | The LPU entered this process as it believed a trade union would . |
| 3 | PEUGEOT Talbot , the UK subsidiary of the big French car-marker , yesterday warned shareholders that trading would remain difficult this year as it revealed a slump in annual profits . |
| 4 | The assassins rushed out of the tunnel , their feet ringing on the stones , emerging onto the promontory in time to catch sight of the punt as it rounded a pillar . |
| 5 | Although the Labour Left may have considered this official conversion to Socialism somewhat belated , it was attracted to the Peace Alliance only in so far as it represented a continuation of previous Unity campaigns . |
| 6 | Each aircraft climbed and peeled-off to port as it reached a position overhead the memorial site . |
| 7 | The last straw was when a totally serious Westite Unionist remarked that , as it was a shooting matter , he recommended that it should be left to the army to investigate as it had a lot of experience of shootings of one kind and another . |
| 8 | The officers lost sight of the car as it crossed a hump-back bridge . |
| 9 | This was a difficult decision as it meant a drop in their poor standard of living . |
| 10 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 11 | Inside the grand , evil smelling hall , a cassocked figure could be seen panting and swaying as it heaved a paper sack of chicken pellets from off the hall table onto the floor . |
| 12 | The Bank , as we know , came up with another offer later in the year which must go down as historic as it entailed a zero increase for a nineteen month period . |
| 13 | She shuddered , half leaning into his plundering mouth as it burned a fever into her throat . |
| 14 | He could not recall agreeing to this at all , but as it offered a chance of avoiding his own intervention , he nodded fervently , and took some more almond soup . |
| 15 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 16 | A whimbrel sailed over , landed , and showed off its striped crown as it tackled a bivalve . |
| 17 | Apparently a Bull terrier needed six stitches after being attacked by a large pike as it chased a stick . |
| 18 | In its latest quarterly review , the Bank said the economy was still bumping along the bottom — just as it reported a year ago . |
| 19 | A BEER garden was evacuated after a pet goat unearthed a dummy hand grenade as it gnawed a thicket at the Exeter Inn , Honiton . |
| 20 | Suddenly the boat dipped as it hit a swell and she staggered , cannoning heavily against Luke before reeling towards the rail . |
| 21 | The free-for-all began when the back door of a Wells Fargo van flew open as it hit a bump in the road in Queens , New York . |
| 22 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |
| 23 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 24 | The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management . |
| 25 | Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago . |
| 26 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 27 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 28 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 29 | The fleeing ship shrank as it climbed a column of billowing grey cloud . |