Example sentences of "as [art] [noun pl] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there 's the theatres , ballets , operas and art exhibitions — ‘ Kultur ’ , as the locals call it , is very popular . |
| 2 | We drove to Stuttgart to drop the boss at the airport then spent the rest of the day looking around the ‘ hot pot ’ of the region , as the locals call it . |
| 3 | As the unknown map of the world diminishes there are few places left for exploration as the Victorians understood it ; most paths have been trodden before . |
| 4 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 5 | The reporting unit is therefore the organization as the owners see it . |
| 6 | Horsley , in turn , was followed around and virtually nursed , as the women saw it , by the embarrassingly doting and un-feminist Olwen , whose old-fashioned attitude towards her man sickened them . |
| 7 | As the mechanics wheeled it away , contemptuous spectators threw pennies at it . |
| 8 | ( groan , groan — you all know what i want ; - ) ; - ) — with Frank playing 11 games from start my bet is that his goal tally would have exceeded 2 — of course he still misses some qualities — but he knows how to make a goal … as the commentaries said it : ‘ He is under-21 and is still learning the game ’ ) |
| 9 | As the Americans saw it , both goals required them to reassure those parties who felt nervous about what was going on . |
| 10 | A few hard-earned days of R and R , as the Americans put it , away from everything and everyone — or so I thought . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh had been left with an uneasy feeling that neither case was as straightforward as the reports made it appear , but certainly there was no prima facie evidence of foul play in connection with either of the two deaths . |
| 12 | Athens will therefore serve as our model of democracy as the Greeks evolved it and understood it . |
| 13 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 14 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 15 | This leaflet is about German Measles or , as the doctors call it , Rubella . |
| 16 | If it is as effective as the researchers say it is I am sure it is going to be a very big hit with cellulite sufferers world-wide . |
| 17 | The Independent Company 's constant patrolling — ‘ pigi , pigi ’ as the natives called it , for whenever asked , an Australian was always going ( pigi ) somewhere — was extended eastward and the first contacts made with the Portuguese on the east coast during May . |
| 18 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 19 | The programme ended with a complete performance of the ballet as the historians think it must have looked on that epochal occasion . |
| 20 | The rest of Spain was held by Muslims , wrongfully , as the Christians saw it ; the emperor of León laid claim to the rest of the peninsula . |
| 21 | As the years passed it became more and more obvious that the BDDA lacked a central office . |
| 22 | As soon as the rains come it needs to emerge quickly in order to find food , and water in which to breed . |
| 23 | Never before , as the Banks put it , had the arguments in favour of limiting the size of the family been presented to so large a public . |
| 24 | This psychology naturally lingered on into the supposedly liberal atmosphere of NEP in the form of the utopian hope that obligations imposed ‘ from the Centre ’ , as the peasants put it , could be avoided , whilst retaining economic rights . |
| 25 | As the peasants put it , " God is high and the tsar is far away " . |
| 26 | As a regional chairman , he had a seat on the national — or UK as the Scots prefer it — BAIE Council , which he found a strange experience . |
| 27 | After a few weeks the foal gains sufficient confidence to start establishing friendships with other foals , and as the weeks pass it will spend more time with them , and less with its mother — unless it is frightened , and then it will dash back to her side for security and reassurance . |
| 28 | ( Or being kicked upstairs , as the vulgarians call it . ) |
| 29 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 30 | We would get the ride free , as the economists put it . |