Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as it [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly .
2	‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised .
3	He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need .
4	In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic .
5	The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing .
6	It is natural to look for causative factors , and we have treated causality much as it is treated in experimental research generally ( see Plutchik , 1974 : 174–87 ) .
7	I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy .
8	Simplicity of operation is paramount and to that effect the machine will begin replay of a CD soon as it is powered up .
9	The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration .
10	Harley would have them jump ship just as it 's pulling into the dock .
11	Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers .
12	But she trusted him , saw the way he handled it through the bends , fed the power in as it was required , was part of the hurtling machine that he controlled so gently .

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