Example sentences of "[det] [noun] it [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 The way I looked at was a rubbish tip , that bit it looks as if he 's cleared and the grass is growing .
2 Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta .
3 In this respect it looks as if some Latin American leaders and regimes may understand better what is needed than the more formal and even ossified democracies of the West .
4 But on this journey it seemed as if the whole land of Masuria was faithful to the Hooked cross .
5 This year it looks as if I will have even more .
6 For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages .
7 One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just send off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article .
8 One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just sent off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article .
9 Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ .
10 On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods .
11 For several moments it seemed as if he might refuse to go with her , then he decided that he would .
12 At that time it developed as a means of circumventing US restrictions on foreign direct investment , but when those restrictions were lifted in 1974 the market contracted sharply .
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