Example sentences of "it [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolle expresses it metaphorically as speech becomes song . |
| 2 | Coleridge viewed it rather as another home for Pantisocracy , even though his companions and fellow believers were reduced now to Sara herself and George Burnett . |
| 3 | He said it slowly as though talking to a child . |
| 4 | As Wright challenged the goalkeeper for the dropped ball , however , Nelson recovered to kick it clear as he fell to the ground . |
| 5 | Nicolo took her hand and swung it gently as they walked . |
| 6 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 7 | Kevin Phillips ' snarl says it all as he leads the Neath tribe 's celebrations after winning the 1990 Schweppes Cup Final . |
| 8 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
| 9 | By leaving the analysis at the abstract level , Freud has enabled some psychotherapists to oppose all crowd phenomena in religious and political action , to see it all as being pathological . |
| 10 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 11 | He was as energised by it all as she was . |
| 12 | The granite control he exerted over his features said it all as he clipped the keys to his own ring . |
| 13 | I 'm staying as far out of it all as I can . |
| 14 | His shocked expression said it all as she pulled away . |
| 15 | There 's a quasi-religious , Gospel feel about it all as grown women clap and cheer . |
| 16 | ‘ I can answer it only as any other scientist would , ’ George said , and anger clipped his words . |
| 17 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 18 | Lay it to a depth of at least 25mm ( 1in ) ; rake smooth , then lay each slab in place , lowering it so as not to disturb the mortar bed . |
| 19 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 20 | Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions . |
| 21 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 22 | She started hiding food away instead of eating it so as not to put on any weight , but hunger forced her to have a good meal at least once a week . |
| 23 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 24 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 25 | At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition . |
| 26 | She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain . |
| 27 | If the WGMS were to be adopted in Britain , could no way be found of modifying it so as to afford the same opportunity ? |
| 28 | At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I could n't hear . |
| 29 | Paragraph ( a ) is by way of restatement of the common law ; paragraph ( b ) extends it so as to make the disposition conversion even if it does not confer a good title on the disponee . |
| 30 | The complexity of pre-trial procedure , particularly in the High Court , has been said to act not only as a deterrent to all but the most determined litigant , but also as a weapon for the recalcitrant defendant who may manipulate it so as to place the pressure of delay upon the plaintiff . |