Example sentences of "it be [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've got I C G conference on the thirteenth to the fifteenth , but maybe it 's er maybe it 's just as Iris is away for |
| 2 | He admits : ‘ The verdict was such a shock , but it 's only as time goes by you realise what the implications are . |
| 3 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |
| 4 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 5 | It is only as deaths of red or green moths in that environment that these are fortuitous events ; this fortuitousness being , as philosophers say , description relative . |
| 6 | It was just as Elizabeth had expected . |
| 7 | It was just as Joe had been telling her all her life . |
| 8 | So it was just as Gabriel said , thought Coffin . |
| 9 | Yes , it was probably as Hans said : there had been a row and Chuang 's wife had used Hans 's name to spite her husband . |
| 10 | It was there as confirmation of the course he sailed rather than as an ever-present guide , as were the slowly changing figures on the Loran 's small screen on the bulkhead beside the companionway . |
| 11 | But Judith wondered if it was really as clearcut as that . |
| 12 | They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be . |
| 13 | Indeed , if Wright was hiding last night , it was only as camouflage and he emphatically answered Graham as early as the sixth minute . |
| 14 | It was only as shore jet ceased to meet increasing demands that recourse was had to outcrops exposed on hillsides in the interior . |
| 15 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 16 | In the film , one of them , Dr Tony Kallend , appeared to explain that acid rain was nothing to be worried about as it was only as acid as Coca Cola . |
| 17 | It was only as time , the weather , bad management , neglect and poverty took their toll that the dream turned sour . |