Example sentences of "as it [be] [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 2 | This is as true for the business world as it is in our leisure moments . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 5 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 6 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |