Example sentences of "[pron] as it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you think that this is important more important to you as it were than it is , is to us because you the clubs and the sailing schools really really must take these sorts of messages on board , not perhaps all of that list there but I would pick out erm that the message that we want to get across to young people , I would pick out the words fun , the words challenging , the words safe , alright . |
| 2 | With provocation we do not describe something as it is or as it could be . |
| 3 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 4 | Like , for instance , can they bargain with you to alter any of the exclusion clauses , or do they have to take it as it is and that 's that ? |
| 5 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 6 | We wanted to recreate it as it was and gave the house a medieval feel . |
| 7 | ‘ It ca n't go far , it 's no use to us as it is and we may be able to pick it up some other time . ’ |
| 8 | There are a great many who imagine that we can get Labour to take the shilling for us as it were and to fight simply for our old aims as an adjunct to our Party . |