Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 2 | The RYA has a list of schools it recognises as fulfilling its requirements and it may be worth contacting them . |
| 3 | As late as the end of February it looked as though this was what they would have to do , and then one evening Ernest returned from a visit to Ilkley flushed with excitement . |
| 4 | Even with the drama of Munich and the prospect of war it seemed as though Alec Reid had not found time for the outside world . |
| 5 | ‘ For the next couple of weeks it looks as though we 'll be living together . |
| 6 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 7 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 8 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 9 | From the ‘ Notice to Policyholders ’ and the circular from NALC it looks as though the council are not covered for libel and slander . |
| 10 | good , and if you rummaged over the details , if you look at the bottom er , you 'll see er account , total costs a hundred thousand , sixty hundred and forty four pounds budget ninety six , eight , seven , four , so that er there in fact it looks as though the actual costs were something erm nearly four thousand pound er more than the budget , do you see ? |
| 11 | To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories . |
| 12 | At times it seems as though it may have been evolved to do just that . ’ |
| 13 | It 's reflected on a mirror so at home it appears as though she has learnt the information off-by-heart . |
| 14 | Diana daubed luminous paint on the eyes of her cuddly green hippo so that at night it seemed as though he was keeping watch and looking after her . |