Example sentences of "[adv] as [subord] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | The Corrado feels subjectively as though it is screwed together just a little more tightly but neither car suffers from rattles or shakes . |
| 3 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 4 | Much of the detail contained in this chapter remains as true now as when it was written . |
| 5 | Statham Lodge was built in 1742 in extensive wooded grounds as a country manor house , and remains as graceful and elegant now as when it was built . |
| 6 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |
| 7 | After around ⅔ of a mile the route curves around as though it 's heading towards the village of Satterthwaite only to curve round back east — keep a look out for Borck Crags , rocky outcrops you can see to your left . |
| 8 | Almost as though it were meant … |
| 9 | It 's almost as though it was translated from Esperanto by an artificial intelligence program suffering from dyslexia . |