Example sentences of "[adv] as it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
| 2 | As suddenly as it was there it was gone again , retracted back into the body of the stick . |
| 3 | Much as it is now — c ) Once every three months ? |
| 4 | Much as it is ‘ obvious ’ to us from the diagram ( though not from a verbal or mathematical description of the same sate-of-affairs ) that B will hit D , that D will then tilt with its left half moving downwards , and that B will end up touching both A and D but not the ground , so it is easily discoverable by the program that this is what will happen . |
| 5 | It is natural to look for causative factors , and we have treated causality much as it is treated in experimental research generally ( see Plutchik , 1974 : 174–87 ) . |
| 6 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 7 | Hardy 's study , reconstructed in the County Museum in Dorchester along with other memorabilia , loses none of its fascination after repeated visits , and the splendid High Street remains in its outline much as it was in Hardy 's lifetime . |
| 8 | The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration . |
| 9 | erm One very important house is erm what is now the Newman Mobray Bookshop , and that of course is still very much as it was in the 17th Century . |
| 10 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the government claims that old currency left in interest-bearing accounts should hold its value , so long as it is not spent . |
| 12 | Any gift or campaign contribution is legal so long as it is reported . |
| 13 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 14 | You can therefore put such a fodder crop onto tripods or a fence when damp , confident that it will dry out , so long as it is not loaded too tight . |
| 15 | The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all . |
| 16 | I have argued before , and shall again , that the farming industry has nothing to fear from such legislation so long as it is fairly enforced . |
| 17 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 18 | Using the other person 's name early on in the transaction also helps establish rapport , so long as it is n't inappropriately familiar or done in a routine , ‘ mechanical ’ way . |
| 19 | It need not be a big thing so long as it is something novel to you and breaks your normal routine . |
| 20 | Whatever ‘ turns you on ’ is okay , so long as it is not connected with modern materialism or the one-God religions , like Christianity , Judaism or Islam . |
| 21 | It would be silly therefore to place , for example , contemporary imperialism , so long as it is directed against ‘ third persons ’ and is a tool for ‘ devouring ’ and ‘ expropriating ’ them , under the heading of ‘ primitive accumulation ’ . |
| 22 | long as it is sealed , but if it escapes in large quantities , when a hole is drilled for example , the tiny fibres can cause serious lung diseases . |
| 23 | 8.1 Neither party shall be under any liability to the other if and for so long as it is prevented from or delayed in performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control . |
| 24 | I submit to you that Pacifism is not and never can be a political method so long as it is chiefly concerned with abstaining from the use of force … . |
| 25 | ( It also renders Tongan maps a most inconvenient shape : to accommodate all the Friendly Islands and all the Tongan seas , a scale map has to be about five times as long as it is wide , though nearly all the population and commerce is bunched in the islands in the far south . ) |
| 26 | So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders . |
| 27 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 28 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 29 | This has now become particularly important , since recent laws have made the disturbance or destruction of a badger sett illegal , so long as it is in regular use . |
| 30 | We should prefer to see it being done in London so long as it is done by male labour , it is no matter where . |