Example sentences of "[verb] as it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all too bland , and the constant reference to the reader as ‘ he ’ is rather tiresome , implying as it does that there are no differences in the reading behaviour and tastes of boys and girls . |
| 2 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 3 | Of the two promises made by the duke , it is the second which has received most attention , implying as it does that the duke had been poaching the earl 's retainers . |
| 4 | Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us . |
| 5 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 6 | In principle , elite theory is still opposed to class analysis at several different levels , arguing as it does that the interests and power of elites are not based on economic factors and that elite differentiation is inevitable even under socialism . |
| 7 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |