Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 31 | High heels were out for now , though ; she felt shaky enough as it was . |
| 32 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 33 | He ended up as Prince Bishop of Durham in 1752 where his saintliness ( he was nicknamed ‘ The Beauty of Holiness ’ ) made him a rare figure amongst the lax Georgian episcopate , concerned largely as it was with political intrigue and careerism . |
| 34 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 35 | Some will want to argue that King is simplifying reality in assuming a single decision-taking point at the end of the project and a neat sequential series of steps , but his message about the limited scope of finance theory is just as important now as it was in 1975 . |
| 36 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that unambiguous communication is just as important now as it was during the cold war , and perhaps even more important ? |
| 37 | It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago . |
| 38 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |
| 39 | It only does not colour the beautiful " gutter " quartet [ 20 ] , where Grimes is not mentioned — a temporary release which is as happy dramatically as it is musically . |
| 40 | Guinness has maintained this tradition , believing that making a contribution to the society in which it prospers is as important today as it was when the company was founded . |
| 41 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 42 | It 's hot enough as it is in this place . |
| 43 | Unfortunately this legislation has proved to be totally ineffective both as it was drafted and as it has been put into practice . |
| 44 | As Malinowski 's own posthumously published field diaries record , this cross-cultural experience , involving a massive exposure to what we nowadays call ‘ culture-shock ’ , is likely to be as gruelling psychologically as it is physically . |
| 45 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |
| 46 | Between these two well-known and reasonably well-documented cultures lay one that is , in many ways , still as mysterious now as it was over two thousand years ago . |
| 47 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 48 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 49 | In the earlier Wind Quintet Schoenberg was still feeling his way towards a 12-note style that was as well-characterized thematically as it was well-balanced in form . |
| 50 | Things are difficult enough as it is . ’ |
| 51 | The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time . |
| 52 | His skin felt scorched enough as it was , although he had to admit his head felt clearer . |
| 53 | Her eyes were weird enough as it was without being bloodshot as well . |
| 54 | Despite the legislative amendments in 1986 , that observation , he said , was ‘ as pertinent now as it ever was ’ . |
| 55 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 56 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 57 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
| 58 | But other members of the EEC will undoubtably support changes — the hope is it wo n't lead to sights like this becoming as common here as it is in some other parts of Europe . |
| 59 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 60 | And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now . |