Example sentences of "as it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the final confrontation , the comedy reaches its height as it emerges that , owing to a design oversight , ED 209 can not negotiate stairs . |
| 2 | This was odd as it indicated that the winter flock had already scattered as separate pairs at this very early date . |
| 3 | The Board rejected this view as it considers that only shareholders are owners of a company and hence the issue of warrants which are not subsequently exercised represents a gain . |
| 4 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 5 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 6 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 7 | Being unemployed in the TA was a positive advantage as it meant that I could devote all my time to training . |
| 8 | As far as myself , Mike and Marius were concerned , this was a good thing , as it meant that the march was going to be tough and that those of us who finished would deserve their white képis . |
| 9 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 11 | As well as producing data on the two sexes that is not directly comparable , this is surely simplistic , suggesting as it does that men do n't have intimate conversations ( and women do n't have large scale confrontations ) . |
| 12 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 13 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 14 | Opposite to Street 's display in the exhibition was an even grander show which The Saturday Review thought was the product of another ‘ master hand ’ and , as it assumed that the building would be Gothic , to avoid failure the Government should employ the two architects jointly . |
| 15 | The Arts Council gave a substantial grant to this scheme as it felt that it emphasised artists ‘ opportunities and practice , rather than the institution and its curatorial staff . |
| 16 | She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks . |
| 17 | Just as it seemed that they may be some sort of communication , the wind grew stronger and all went awry , the sky momentarily clearing , the celestial blue briefly highlighting the monochrome grey . |
| 18 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 19 | GM did not put in a counterbid , as it considered that the company was being overvalued . |
| 20 | Although the wording of the Act suggests that it could be used in cases of abuse , it seems that there is such a general sense of unease about the law as it stands that some new and especially designed statute will be necessary for effective provision . |
| 21 | This second component , consisting of K re-ionization and Madelung terms , is important for understanding catalytic processes as it indicates that the local environment about the CO is ionic , even at high precoverages of K. |
| 22 | This heading , which the report uses , is illuminating as it indicates that , for the government at least , old age and disability are synonymous . |
| 23 | L. 266 , p. 1 ) confirms the contractual nature of judicial proceedings such as those in point inasmuch as it provides that the law applicable to the contract governs the consequences of a total or partial failure to comply with obligations arising under it and consequently the contractual liability of the party responsible for such breach . |
| 24 | As it happened that could not have worked out better . |
| 25 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 26 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
| 27 | The coverage of the new business park was encouraging , however , as it showed that Scotswood had not been forgotten , and there was hope for a better future . |
| 28 | But , insofar as it argues that the state , notwithstanding its apparent neutrality and the inherent variability of state forms and interventions , still serves the interests of the owners of the means of production , this account still maintains that at all times the state acts to defend capital . |
| 29 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 30 | The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received . |