Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 2 | One of the typical patterns , when you go back to work or attend a course , is to opt out of this new situation as soon as it gets a little tough , especially if there are domestic problems such as children sick or on holiday . |
| 3 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 4 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 5 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 6 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 7 | Having made the somewhat contentious statement on Caribbean parents ' distorted appreciation of their function in relation to their children 's formal education , I am left to qualify and substantiate , particularly as it has a weighty bearing on the general argument of the entire book . |