Example sentences of "[that] it [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 2 | The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface . |
| 3 | Relics have been housed in the neighbouring priory ruins , including a huge stone chest decorated in high relief with scenes from the biblical tale of David and known as St Andrew 's Sarcophagus , although there is no reason to suppose that it ever served as a coffin . |
| 4 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 5 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 6 | It would not be an exaggeration to stress the extent to which the nouveau roman has dictated the terms of critical discourse , nor to state that it still acts as the essential reference point in any definition of postmodern aesthetics . |