Example sentences of "[noun] be just as it " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’
2 The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been .
3 The telephone was just as it should be , with no bugging device to turn his private conversations into public knowledge .
4 That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ .
5 ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’
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