Example sentences of "as it be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death . |
| 2 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 3 | I was unable to see his face but as it was getting dark , I was not surprised . |
| 4 | Stopped at a village as it was getting dark . |
| 5 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |
| 6 | He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road . |
| 7 | He was a little surprised by her request , as it was getting dark , and they were on a lonely hill some way from her house . |
| 8 | ‘ Suicide — suicide by drowning — about three or four hours ago , just as it was getting dark . |
| 9 | just as it was getting light . |
| 10 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |