Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as we [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone says — my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made the point several times — that Yugoslavia as we knew it is no more . |
| 2 | I think that Yugoslavia as we know it has come to an end . |
| 3 | It is fair to state that Christianity as we know it today derives ultimately not from Jesus 's time , but from the Council of Nicaea . |
| 4 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 5 | It makes up 70–80 per cent of the bodies of all living things — and life as we know it would be impossible without it . |
| 6 | Each curricular area has a carefully planned programme of work designed to enable pupils to develop at a pace and at a level suited to their age and ability as we feel it is imperative that children experience success in whatever they do . |
| 7 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 8 | The presence of carbon is the most interesting aspect of the carbonaceous chondrites , because life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry . |