Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] as it " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd asked that he should n't be bottle fed with my expressed milk as it can be more difficult to establish breastfeeding if a baby is confused by a teat . |
2 | This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring , catching rhythm . |
3 | Breakfast was my favourite meal as it was the easiest for me to eat . |
4 | ‘ But I am looking forward to my new role as it will be a fresh challenge for me . ’ |
5 | All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys . |
6 | Many groups will make models of their village or their high street as it was in the past . |
7 | Using early documentary evidence , Olive Geddes guides the reader expertly through the first four centuries of the sport , shedding light on its birth , the techniques and equipment used , and above all , its social standing as it began to develop from an outlawed activity to the world 's most internationally popular game . |
8 | There is disintegration when no common morality is observed , and history shows that the loosening of moral bonds is often the first stage of disintegration , so that society is justified in taking the same steps to preserve its moral code as it does to preserve its Government and other essential institutions . |
9 | They had difficulty in meeting their diocesan quota as it was . |
10 | A whimbrel sailed over , landed , and showed off its striped crown as it tackled a bivalve . |
11 | Ruby — whose name in Australopithese was Glubu — gave birth to a son , Krono , her only child as it would turn out . |
12 | Honey bees , for example , regularly use the Sun as their compass , compensating for its changing azimuth as it moves from east to west . |
13 | Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning . |
14 | But expressions of a recursive language , I maintain , could probably not have acquired their categorial valency as it were , their powers of combination into new but readily understood messages , unless their users were on the second rung of the intentional ladder and therefore , potentially , past the Gricean hump . |
15 | It was the sharp turn , together with the speed of his driving , which flung Miss Beard over on to Ruth , and her sharp squeal as it happened which brought Ruth back to reality . |
16 | That 's its final aim as it were . |
17 | Look in the locker under the passenger seat for its original colour as it is usually not repainted in a respray . . |
18 | She shuddered , half leaning into his plundering mouth as it burned a fever into her throat . |
19 | He spent his time in bed , lying on his left side as it was the only position in which the pain was slightly eased . |
20 | A purpose will be to reassess the value of our penal system as it has been built up until now — but much more than that . |
21 | But he said : ‘ Football is as much to do with your mental attitude as it is to anything else ours just is n't right at the moment . |
22 | Some of the most gratifying comments referred to Nigel — such as , ‘ How you achieved that much wished objective said as much about your late husband as it did about you . |
23 | And before misguided preconceptions regarding that T-word nip possible investigation in the bud , this music is as far removed from our pitiful squeak-core as it is from Billy Ray Cyrus . |
24 | Do you want one press release which may go to your institutional press as it were , the things which are specifically related to environmental health and nothing else ? |