Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as it be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | This is the technique favoured by the British Deaf Association as it is thought to give the child the greatest chance of expression and understanding . |
2 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
3 | Three related projects comprise this research programme , each of which explores some aspect of contemporary change and development in British society as it is reflected in , and affected by , different kinds of local areas . |
4 | The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure . |
5 | It 's easier now : I remember when I was first in the TV newsroom , the foreign round-up as it was called went from pictures of policemen in Peru beating demonstrators , to a volcano erupting in the Philippines , to a hurricane in the Caribbean , to more police beating up more people somewhere else . |
6 | A requirement to minimise , even to trivialise the aesthetic — one might almost say , a fear of the aesthetic — is the hollowness at the heart of historical materialism as it is defended here . |
7 | In developing a thorough electronic information resource in the current climate of Town Hall life it is just as important to improve the facilities for a central electronic archive as it is to ensure that the paper records are properly looked after . |
8 | We must therefore conclude that social class as it is used in stratificational studies is a proxy variable covering distinctions in life-style , attitude and belief as well as differential access to wealth , power and prestige . |
9 | Approximately 1,250 pages of new information were produced by 3.5 typists , and this involved a lot of unpaid overtime as it was supported with a mere extra £1,000 for limited additional typing help . |
10 | It broke up into tiny specks as it was blown across the painting and gave a nice granular texture to the whole surface . |
11 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |
12 | But while the Section d'Or represented the high point of the Cubist movement as it was presented to the public , and while the influence of Cubism daily became more powerful and widespread , many painters who had been Cubist , or had moved in Cubist circles , were already abandoning the style or using certain aspects of it as points of departure for developing completely new art forms . |
13 | Did the inclusion of 'subsidiary " invalidate the restrictive covenant as it was accepted that many subsidiaries did not deal in the mail order business ( one was a restaurant in Alice Springs ) . |
14 | Please indicate whether it is correct for the new season by inserting ‘ Correct 1981/82 ’ or amend as necessary and return immediately to the office sending any additional information as it is obtained . |
15 | Thus the element of moral instruction entered Indirect Rule as it was practised in the Nigerian emirates-though in a system so deliberately obfuscatory it was not easy to see how such instruction could be provided . |
16 | The court heard how the river turned a milky white colour as it was contaminated with toxic residue from shampoo , moisturiser , and hair lightener products . |
17 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
18 | Exhaust gases from the Trionic Saab 9000CS were purer than the surrounding air as it was driven through London . |
19 | To get an idea of some of the many different features that can be produced , consider what happens to a single , large flow as it is traced from its source to its tip . |
20 | There was a fresh breeze and the canoe shipped water in a choppy sea as it was launched , forcing the paddlers to ditch all their gear except a tommy-gun , a Colt 45 , and their signalling equipment . |
21 | The former is of unusual design as it was built in two storeys ( largely in the fourteenth century ) , one church above the other . |
22 | On the morning of Aug. 19 , tanks were sent on to the streets of Moscow and other major cities as it was announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had effectively been deposed . |
23 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
24 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
25 | It was the repercussions of this relatively minor event in the Balkans that led to the Great War as it was called , the First World War . |
26 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
27 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
28 | JUNE SEES the end of the old 10p piece as legal currency as it is replaced by the new smaller version . |
29 | A First Spiritualist does n't drink coffee , or eat white bread or cheese ( apart from Gorgonzola — the Good Cheese as it 's called ) , and faced by a frankfurter is liable to scoot off into a corner , whimpering . |
30 | We had Trimalchio 's feast to go on , described by Nero 's mate Petronius , so we had an idea of what they ate , and let me say that it was as much of a surprise to find they had sausages and black pudding as it was to find out they had concrete . |