Example sentences of "as it be [adj] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , from a harmonic point of view , as it is impossible to form chords such as the dominant with pentatonic scales , the harmony is slightly static , there being no decisive resolution or strong cadences .
2 As it is impossible to reduce police strength any further to offset the estimated cost of the two major investigations , the force will have to implement some or all of the measures mentioned . ’
3 The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement .
4 Just as it is sensible to place notices in braille at hand level or just above so that they can be easily read with the fingers , so visual material needs to be put up near to eye level if it is to be seen or read without difficulty by all the pupils .
5 Most research does involve consulting professionals ( Cloke , 1983 ; Eastman , 1984 ) as it is difficult to identify abusers or victims .
6 Try to remove the tarmac as it is hostile to plant roots .
7 However , it shows a marked preference for the brackish water habitat which should be provided in captivity as it is prone to skin parasites and bacterial infections when kept in fresh water , no matter how hard and alkaline this may be .
8 Just as it is unwise to tell children that the stork brings babies , using the stork as a symbol , because this leads children astray if they take it literally , so , in religion , the symbolic language used interferes with the process of developing rationality in human affairs .
9 The unwary traveller could easily be perplexed by the names of shops in Japan , as it 's fashionable to give shops names in Japlish , with no regard — or with the wrong regard — to the word 's original English meaning .
10 As it was difficult to make stamps adhere to records without paper labels , by 1916 all disc companies were using them .
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