Example sentences of "it [prep] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 2 | If you tell somebody you can it for as little as sixteen pounds per month , guess what , that what they 'll have . |
| 3 | Get to the point , tell people what they need to know and do it with as much style , clarity and substance as possible . |
| 4 | Help them to like what they see and to accept it with as much encouragement as you can give . |
| 5 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 6 | When tomorrow came , Charlotte faced it with as much resolution and efficiency as she could muster . |
| 7 | " Enjoy what you do in it and treat it with as much care as you do your home . " |
| 8 | Ideally a page should look evenly grey , so that the eye glides over it with as little distraction from the writing as possible . |
| 9 | Food , to them , was a commodity , and they treated it with as little respect as a bar of soap . |
| 10 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |
| 11 | But Jim , bless him , had taken it with as little fuss as if he 'd been asked to feed the cat for a couple of days . |
| 12 | You need to counteract it with as many positive thoughts about yourself as possible . |
| 13 | The present landlord was all too eager to keep up his predecessor 's reputation in the matter of hollands , and was only too delighted to dispense it to as many Lionisers who requested it . |
| 14 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |