Example sentences of "it as [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’ |
| 2 | A paper-thin shell of sound wood is left on the surface of the infected timber which shows deep cracks along the grain but rarely across it as may result from dry rot . |
| 3 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 4 | There was no hit and miss about it as can happen today where you can put a camera virtually anywhere and zoom into the position for any shot you want . |
| 5 | Maybe I says it as should n't , but they 're not a pair I like , educated and all as they may be . |
| 6 | Though I says it as should n't , I could almost fancy a bowl o ’ that meself . ’ |