Example sentences of "as it be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 're in plenty enough trouble as it is over this deal . ’
2 Dark as it is on this patch of forgotten ground , I can see the eagerness in his eyes .
3 In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day .
4 If this is the aim of current policy , as it is of this series of unit texts , we have to begin by examining ways in which schools and school policies can themselves be a major element in children 's difficulties .
5 I urge my right hon. Friend to ensure that other EC countries emulate our far-reaching rules and regulations to ensure that there is a total ban on veal crates throughout the Community and that the transportation of live animals , particularly horses and ponies , inside the European continent is as stringently controlled as it is in this country under our domestic rules and regulations .
6 That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee .
7 It 's hot enough as it is in this place .
8 I am willing to fail any dope test be it verbal , non-verbal , as long as it 's after this year 's London Marathon .
9 In the context of medical decisions , it would be perverse for it to act otherwise than in accordance with the advice of its medical staff when that advice was unanimous as it was in this case , the two other paediatric consultants on its staff wholly agreeing with Dr. I. The Official Solicitor , as J. 's guardian ad litem , was of the same view on the strength of the independent advice of Dr. N.
10 Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year .
11 Moderator we , we do accept this but maybe I could er say just a word to the assembly about the workload as it were of this panel on doctrine .
12 The road to follow up into the low hills is marked with the sign ‘ Coteaux de Jurançon ’ , though it is also quite easy to lose once you are up there ; but when vineyards are so thin on the ground as it were in this part of the country , there is every reason to get briefly lost amongst them .
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