Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 2 | Future risks — ‘ there should be a cultural shift in the audit so that it looks forward as well as backward ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks almost as though it might be a fire . ’ |
| 4 | In nephrite it occurs exclusively as ferrous and in jadeite as ferric oxide . |
| 5 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
| 6 | It stays exactly as arranged . ’ |
| 7 | Similarly the draw will attract as much interest for those it keeps apart as those it brings together . |
| 8 | HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’ |
| 9 | It translates literally as ‘ consistent ’ but means more that things must be seen through . |
| 10 | When in market exchange under capitalism something is treated as a commodity , whether it is labour or goods , the fact that it appears simply as ‘ a thing with a price ’ obscures the exploitative social relationships within which it has been produced . |
| 11 | To me it seems now as though all had ended well . |
| 12 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It means just as it sounds . |
| 14 | A computer is a machine with the attractive property that it does exactly as it is told , yet the outcome of a series of throws of an unbiased dice will produce a random sequence of numbers in which the n + 1th outcome is independent of the nth . |
| 15 | As a state politician I feel awkward talking about it , but our KGB has its own ‘ Mafia Department ’ for the nasty work , and it does just as it pleases . |
| 16 | Whatever his secret , it works well as the 5 pound trout in the freezer at BMK discovered . |
| 17 | It begins just as President Gorbachev embarks on his most radical policy changes yet : a new economic strategy and , possibly , a new treaty of the union . |
| 18 | It comes therefore as no surprise that these classes are disparate , weak and ideologically unsophisticated in terms of facing the problem of soil erosion and deforestation . |