Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 2 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 3 | You rinse the media , and add one bag per 55 gallons to your filter ( or directly in path of water flow as it says on the packet ) remembering to replace it every 3 to 6 months . |
| 4 | With the Parliamentary Panel now , as it says on the motion , there 's a lot up for retirement . |
| 5 | But they 've also pooled together in this single regeneration budget on , and er , as it says on the back page , all those other budgets which were all handled separately before , to create this very large pool of money that is available . |
| 6 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
| 7 | As it says in the original rules : |
| 8 | C is the velocity of light , as it says in ‘ Space Time ’ , the way we measure the velocity of light , and therefore I am the bringer of light , the prince of light , Lucifer himself . ’ ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , as it says in the books , it could augur good . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As it says in the Bible , ‘ God is no respecter of persons ’ , Romans 2–11 . |
| 11 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 12 | As it says in the article You own house and live in Surrey your surviving spouse is not going to get a great deal of the house . |
| 13 | Mabel often quoted lines of poetry to make her point , and whether they came from Tennyson , Keats , Wordsworth or Rupert Brooke , she always prefaced them with ‘ As it says in the Bible . ’ |
| 14 | To have towering , snow-spattered mountains everywhere you look , to gaze down into valleys , dotted — as it says in the brochures — with carved wooden chalets with roofs like lyres — to have all this and chocolate , too , is almost obscene . |
| 15 | As it says in the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , " So our troubles , we think , are basically of our own making . |
| 16 | But , as , as , as it says in the report which we 've had this evening , a bit of flexibility , a bit of balance . |
| 17 | In Oxfordshire with regard to drug misuse , well , as it says in this report er the main drug of misuse is alcohol , and we also have quite a problem with minor tranquillizer dependents . |
| 18 | If it is quick about it this will give the electron the chance to get over the hump and repay the loan as it emerges on the other side . |
| 19 | The beginnings examined are interestingly compared with those featuring in films , whereas the exploration of middles and ends includes a study on theme patterning in " popstyling " , characterisation as it emerges from fictional discourse , and a functional typology of dialogue ( which is interesting , but unfortunately inadequately substantiated in terms of textual evidence ) in " actionbooks " . |
| 20 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 21 | It 's not Marxism because what we actually have now in a Maoist Communist Party , as it emerges in the course of the nineteen thirties , is a leadership composed not of socialist working class militants but of intellectuals whose prime motivation is that they are modernizing nationalists . |
| 22 | However , in a key passage intended to highlight the Alliance 's " transatlantic " character , the communiqué also stipulated the " necessary transparency and complementarity between the European security and defence identity as it emerges in the Twelve and the WEU , and the Alliance " . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 24 | The fortress commanded a view up the narrow valley of the Yucay River , as it wound past the ancient Inca town tucked in the crux of the mountains , before it became the turbulent Urubamba . |
| 25 | Julia could make out dark green stretches of the river as it wound between the ochre and terracotta of the buildings . |
| 26 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 27 | The supreme joy of Keld is the river , hurrying in a mad rush from its desolate beginnings as it thrashes through a channel it has carved in the limestone in a series of cascades and waterfalls . |
| 28 | And as they continued along the path the weka merely stalked into the undergrowth , its short black tail giving a slight twitch as it pecked at whatever caught its reddish eye . |
| 29 | The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial . |
| 30 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |