Example sentences of "[be] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 2 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 3 | It 's wrong for us to steal from someone who seems to be richer than we are just as it 's wrong for someone to steal from us if they think their need is greater than ours . |
| 4 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 5 | No one fishery will ever be exactly as it was the previous year . |
| 6 | So in twenty four hours it will be exactly as it is now having gone all the way round , yes ? |
| 7 | So he would be under the STV , and in many constituencies his re.adoption would be practically as it is now a guarantee of his return to Westminster . |
| 8 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 9 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 10 | You were there as it happens . |
| 11 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 12 | That is all as it should be : but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom . |
| 13 | This is all as it should be . ’ |
| 14 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 15 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's enough as it is with Charles in hospital , Jamie charged with assault , and you back in Hong Kong working for me . |
| 17 | Now this entire wall is exactly as it was in about fourteen fifty when it was built . |
| 18 | Which is saying : Smiths are the victim of the vast cliché-ing in rock , whereby everything is not as it seems , i.e. note the present glut of supposed ‘ leftish ’ groups signing to major labels : Billy Bragg as the opposite of Wham . |
| 19 | All is not as it would appear , however . |
| 20 | It usually dawns on you slowly that all is not as it would appear on the surface . |
| 21 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 22 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 23 | All is not as it seems . |
| 24 | The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’ |
| 25 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 26 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Go As You Please ’ is just as it sounds , and with your unlimited 7-day bus pass and your 6 accommodation vouchers , which can be used at any of the Youth Hostels in Northern Ireland , you have the freedom to go where you want , when you want . |
| 28 | As you have read the above paragraphs , many of you will already be forming your own opinions — and this is just as it should be . |
| 29 | Everything is just as it was left . ’ |
| 30 | A ‘ storyline ’ is just as it sounds — a shorthand way to refer to the content of what someone says , where this has the elements of being a story — a comprehensible account of something . |