Example sentences of "exactly as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 2 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 3 | He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced . |
| 4 | It now houses the National Centre of Manzonian studies , with a precious and extensive library , consulting and reading rooms and the Manzoni Museum which includes one wing of the house left exactly as it was when the writer was alive . |
| 5 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 6 | People must decide which they value most — a cheap supply of water , or preserving the countryside exactly as it was . |
| 7 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 8 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 9 | She spent most of her time weeping and wailing to whoever would listen to her — and she really did go ‘ Boo-hoo ! ’ exactly as it is written in the books . |
| 10 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if a question is asked exactly as it appears here and you give an answer which has clearly been prepared in advance and learned off by heart you will not be very convincing . |
| 12 | For 9 consecutive days the Manor will be peopled and run exactly as it was in 1644 — the middle of the English Civil War — two years after the Battle of Edgehill and the year of the Battle of Cropredy Bridge , both within 8 miles of Sulgrave . |
| 13 | For 9 consecutive days the Manor will be peopled and run exactly as it was in 1746 — Georgian times — one year after the abortive Jacobite Rebellion . |
| 14 | The human mind is more than a computer : Computers have dull and exact memories — what went in can come out again , exactly as it went in . |
| 15 | ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’ |
| 16 | Certainly depth-perception and rapid reflexes in adjusting what is seen standing still to oneself moving at great speed , is essential : that corner in Monaco must have appeared to Jackie exactly as it was : such-and-such a distance away , to be approached at such-and-such an angle , such-and-such a speed and so on . |
| 17 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 18 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 19 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 20 | The place appears exactly as it has done through the ages , the only signs of man 's intrusion being a ruined bothy , an insecure footbridge and the thin track worn by hardy walkers . |
| 21 | He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly . |
| 22 | But the point is : could he understand imagining an unfamiliar face exactly as it is , but familiar ( or vice versa ) ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 25 | BOMBER AIRFIELD SOCIETY is dedicated to recreating a World War Two bomber station exactly as it was , complete with aircraft . |
| 26 | ‘ I have emotional ties to it exactly as it is regardless of the extra voters . ’ |
| 27 | A word processor is a screen-based memory system which means that if you type a letter or a calculation on the visual display unit then press the print-out command , the letter or calculation will be typed exactly as it is on the screen . |
| 28 | Does it rebuild it exactly as it was ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |