Example sentences of "as it [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big Apple — as it likes to be known — is the symbol of the world 's greatest metropolis , New York City . |
| 2 | It is still in its infancy and not as abstract as it aspires to be . ’ |
| 3 | In the absence of an express agreement , under the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 the court will apportion the contributions between the vendors in such a manner as it considers to be just and equitable . |
| 4 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 5 | Another avenue of enjoyable information-seeking — sadly , not as well-known and patronized as it deserves to be — is the programme of private gardens opened in aid of various charities like the Gardeners ' Benevolent Fund , from whom you can obtain a county-by-county week-by-week guide giving details of location , times of opening and points of interest . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're going to enjoy Tivoli as it deserves to be enjoyed , I think for tonight at least we should call a truce , ’ he suggested , apparently unaware of her intense reaction to his touch , as they walked past the Pantominteatret , where a performance of the traditional Italian pantomime was taking place on the open-air stage . |
| 7 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 8 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 9 | The plan was also prepared in a different way from those drafted by the US divisions , as it had to be to give proper consideration to the problems and needs of a totally different planning environment . |
| 10 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |
| 11 | But as it had to be borne , I shook my head . |
| 12 | Naturally , as it had to be the biggest show the town had ever seen , or nothing , so Bill hired the two brightest theatrical stars of the day to bowl to Len . |
| 13 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 14 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 15 | Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family . |
| 16 | ‘ Triumphant death ’ , as it came to be called by Evangelicals , was , first and foremost , a triumph with Christ over death ; in St Paul 's words , ‘ Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |
| 17 | But we have to examine his other main passion : creative drama , as it came to be called round about this time . |
| 18 | And although Gibson 's initial concern was with verbal learning , subsequent experimental investigations of ‘ stimulus pre-differentiation ’ , as it came to be called , were conducted in a range of transfer paradigms . |
| 19 | The retrievability , or recuperability ( as it came to be known ) , of the nouveau roman depended to some degree on the reader being convinced of the necessity for modernity . |
| 20 | ‘ Aerated water ’ , or soda water as it came to be called , was but one of Joseph Priestley 's many inventions . |
| 21 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |
| 22 | Reading Native Races and their Rulers , one becomes aware of the extent to which Indirect Rule , as it came to be practised by Temple and presumably his fellow Residents , implied a special and refined kind of experience of power . |
| 23 | This route , the ‘ Sacred Way ’ as it came to be called , saved Verdun . |
| 24 | The police pursued this question of ‘ pop-gun or firearm ’ , as it came to be known , through a High Court which referred the matter back to the magistrate . |
| 25 | The Battle of the Belmont Stockade , or Sloop 's Bight , as it came to be known , was a defeat from which Liamuiga 's people would not recover : more than four hundred warriors were killed , among them Tiguary , their leader , shot through the bowels . |
| 26 | Without it , ‘ Stop-Go ’ , as it came to be known in the 1960s , will be with us for ever . |
| 27 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 28 | The Iraqi " supergun " affair , as it came to be known in the UK media , first came to light on April 10 when UK customs officials in Teesside detained a consignment of steel cylinders bound for Iraq . |
| 29 | The " barbecoup " , as it came to be known from the social event which preceded it , resulted in a charge of treason against Tohian two months later . |
| 30 | The new Corpus Iuris Civilis , or Body of the Civil Law , as it came to be called by later commentators , consisted of four books . |