Example sentences of "as it be in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor in the case of animals will it undermine what we say of their consciousness , grounded as it is in their contiguity to the human paradigm . |
| 2 | Probably this curiosity will be quite superficial , he thought to himself , as it is in me until I have more time to spend on it . |
| 3 | Here , in Madeleine L'Engle 's Meet the Austins , worldly success is made some sort of virtue , as it is in her A wrinkle in time ( 1963 , p.30 ) : ‘ You 've met my mother , have n't you ? |
| 4 | Every tale — depressing as it is in its own right represents another body blow to the leasing industry . |
| 5 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 6 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 7 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 8 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 9 | I find , however , that the sequence between the first and last is as regular and constant in those other cases as it is in mine . |
| 10 | This is as true for the business world as it is in our leisure moments . |
| 11 | The trick is to aim your eyes at the sign as soon as it is in your line of vision and then to fix your gaze upon it as you go past . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's not an improvement — I prefer your hair as it is in your photograph . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 14 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 15 | If the weather pattern was as uncertain as it was in her own country , she should take the opportunity of going there while the sky remained unclouded and the clear air of the city simmered with a body-relaxing warmth . |
| 16 | I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane . |
| 17 | From my thirteen-year-old daughter 's account it is still as uncritical as it was in my own schooldays . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid that STG is no longer as reliable as it was in my grandfather 's day . |
| 19 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |
| 20 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 21 | He came one day softly to see Cley , to discuss with him whether to ban , as it was in his power to do , a new play entitled Forgotten Robe , Abyss , Glitter . |
| 22 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |