Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probably a mistake to regard the urethral syndrome as one single condition rather as it would be wrong to think of ‘ pneumonia ’ as being a single disease of the lungs . |
| 2 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 3 | It went through cleavage just as it would have done in contact with its sister-cell … |
| 4 | I 'm not saying I want to see Morris ' Utopian vision in action exactly as it is , but a lot of his idea is still very inspiring a century after it was written . |
| 5 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 6 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 7 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 8 | Of course , in order to have something literal and precise in the desired sense , care must be taken to understand the given conception exactly as it is , without addition . |
| 9 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |
| 10 | JustText is a misnomer really as it can handle graphics and rules quite easily . |
| 11 | TWENTY-FIVE Northern Soul dance numbers cut a lifetime ago , largely lifted from the ‘ For Dancers Only ’ and ‘ For Dancers Also ’ albums and as essential for the '60s soul fan today as it ever was . |
| 12 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 13 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 14 | A theory for this cloud was proposed by Chang and Burnetti in Nature ( vol 314 , page 676 ) : that a meteor had encountered the cloud deck just as it shattered , producing heat that warmed the cloud layer over a large area . |
| 15 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 16 | I am extremely confused by the popularity of the Rover V8 3.5 litre engine especially as it is so thirsty . |
| 17 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 18 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 19 | It could have been taken , he reckoned , from the very spot where he was standing , capturing the scene much as it now was , altered only by the onset of winter . |
| 20 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 21 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 22 | He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly . |
| 23 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 24 | ‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised . |
| 25 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 26 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 27 | The sun left a red stain behind as it retreated below the horizon . |
| 28 | Rubberneck now made no attempt to hide ; they wanted him , he had raised the window high as it would go . |
| 29 | Coming out was the key issue then as it is now . |
| 30 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |