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 | No one fishery will ever be exactly as it was the previous year . |
| 5 | So in twenty four hours it will be exactly as it is now having gone all the way round , yes ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You were there as it happens . |
| 10 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 11 | That is all as it should be : but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom . |
| 12 | This is all as it should be . ’ |
| 13 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's enough as it is with Charles in hospital , Jamie charged with assault , and you back in Hong Kong working for me . |
| 16 | Now this entire wall is exactly as it was in about fourteen fifty when it was built . |
| 17 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Everything is just as it was left . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ This is just as it always was except that I usually have some of his sketch books , a few of his letters , and his work-book on display , but those things are on loan to the exhibition . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 24 | it , it 's still as it was actually . |
| 25 | This is clearly as it should be . |
| 26 | At the next session , will be chaired by Kay , and er , she will tell us what she is about as it were , erm , in a moment . |
| 27 | One of the nicest things about the house is that it is virtually as it was in 1906 , and with all its rooms of manageable size . |
| 28 | It 's Weathernly as it 's more or less . |
| 29 | That is a slightly odd point from a Labour Member in view of the fact that the SERPS entitlement of such people , which is what the original question was about , is precisely as it was left by the Labour Government . |
| 30 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |