Example sentences of "as it [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian .
2 It is for the national court to interpret and apply the legislation adopted for the implementation of the directive in conformity with the requirements of Community law , in so far as it is given discretion to do so under national law . ’
3 However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax .
4 And as it was revealed house prices were still falling , Nat West chairman Lord Alexander said : ‘ There is continuing , widespread deep recession in the UK . ’
5 He came just as it was getting dark again .
6 Women supported the idea of compulsory leave from work as long as it was paid leave and called for the adoption of the International Labour Organisation 's Washington Convention , which provided for six weeks maternity leave before and after childbirth .
7 One of the secretaries kindly dropped me off on her car route home , which — as it was bucketing rain yet again — I appreciated .
8 For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers .
9 If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well .
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