Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] as it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To carry out participant observation into the minutiae of police practice might be theoretically approved in any statement made for general consumption , but in the cold light of institutional reality it will most likely be thwarted or subverted even as it is being agreed . |
| 2 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 3 | For 9 consecutive days the Manor will be peopled and run exactly as it was in 1644 — the middle of the English Civil War — two years after the Battle of Edgehill and the year of the Battle of Cropredy Bridge , both within 8 miles of Sulgrave . |
| 4 | For 9 consecutive days the Manor will be peopled and run exactly as it was in 1746 — Georgian times — one year after the abortive Jacobite Rebellion . |
| 5 | An elaborate framework of twisted osiers , the Wheel was nine feet in diameter with the proportions of a water-wheel ; but lit by the lamps and raised aloft as it was , it looked gigantic . |