Example sentences of "as it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 2 | And that may not be as bad as it first sounds . |
| 3 | Armed with this knowledge , we then decide to adopt Taylor 's value-added framework ( in his seminal work of 1986 ) to discuss the processes needed to transform information as it first appears in the public domain into information that matches the detailed individual decision-making situation . |
| 4 | This is not as innocuous as it first sounds . |
| 5 | This disparity was not as striking as it first appears , for the Sinhalese were proportionately less prominent in urban areas , where most policemen were stationed . |
| 6 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 7 | In this light , the high failure rate of leave applications would not be as surprising as it first seems . |
| 8 | This affords Brown a chance to explore the planet which he believes not to be as dead as it first appears . |
| 9 | However , the baryon fraction is at least 13 per cent for HCG62 , which is significantly larger than the global value , so the situation is not as simple as it first appeared . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , in spite of the widespread nature of the phenomenon , there is no agreed explanation of the causes , and these are probably as complex as the process itself , which is by no means as simple as it first seems . |
| 11 | But the restriction need not be as great as it first appears . |
| 12 | Nor is the analogy as far out as it first appears . |
| 13 | The concept of double tax is not always as drastic as it first sounds , particularly in the current economic climate where trading and capital losses are perhaps more common than profits and gains . |
| 14 | So I jumped in , eloquently I thought , to second Niall 's resolution , to be released to the press if agreed : that the Labour Party should make annual contributions to the IRA — Yes I did - I was in a wonderful whirl , you see , the whole ant-heap had suddenly become vivid , and , um , deconstructable ; I forgot Wat Tyler and Keir Hardie , and saw rich and poor as it all is today , internationally struggling , the classes — well , you could n't understand … |
| 15 | One could calmly ovulate and not even know one was doing it , as it all happened ‘ down there ’ ; this left ‘ up here ’ free for intellectual thought . |
| 16 | ( xxviii ) says that Kleon was the first to raise his voice and use theatrical gestures — as it all politicians earlier than Kleon spoke in a monotone with their arms rigidly at their sides ! |
| 17 | It takes less than five minutes to put up as it all erects in one — a great advantage . |
| 18 | ‘ This Corosini , ’ she blurted out , as it all became crystal-clear . |
| 19 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 20 | The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless . |
| 21 | Seeing as it all peeling and chipping . |
| 22 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |
| 23 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as it common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 24 | It does n't , in my view , matter dreadfully whether inflation is 2% or 6% , as long as it more or less stays at one level or the other . |