Example sentences of "[adv] as it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |
| 2 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 3 | But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu . |
| 4 | It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago . |
| 5 | This is its historic mission , as necessary today as it was 100 years ago . |
| 6 | THE AGONY of what happened to her son is as acute for Joan McDermott today as it was 20 years ago . |