Example sentences of "as [conj] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity . |
| 2 | If = .5 , then it is as probable that h is true , given e , as that it is false , since in the calculus . |
| 3 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 4 | It is difficult to relate the proposals in the review to prospects for services for elderly people , as although it is entitled ‘ Working for Patients ’ , the Review makes little mention of health care for individuals or particular client groups . |
| 5 | Its nervous system is being controlled , as irresistibly as if it were a helpless drug addict , or as if the cuckoo were a scientist plugging electrodes into its brain . |
| 6 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 7 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 8 | He was resting his huge hand on June 's angled knee as casually as if it were the arm of a chair . |
| 9 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 10 | What was occupying his mind , as vividly as if it were even now taking place , was the moment when he had said , ‘ That is absolutely fascinating , Norman , ’ and then realized it was supposed to be the end of the programme . |
| 11 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 12 | The waiter arrived with the third bottle of Valpolicella and Urquhart poured himself a glass with the same relish as if it were his first . |
| 13 | She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton . |
| 14 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
| 15 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 16 | An arbitration award can be enforced by application to the court under s26 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , which allows enforcement of the award in the same way as if it were a court judgment . |
| 17 | Thus if the effect of an indemnity is to reverse liability , it will be subject to the same statutory control as if it were an exclusion . |
| 18 | She could see a decision path dividing in front of her as plainly as if it was real . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 20 | Furthermore , deeds made by individuals need no longer be sealed , although they may seal if they wish to do so , and deeds made by a company need only be signed by a director and the company secretary ( or by two directors ) and , provided that the deed is expressed to be executed by the company , then it has the same effect as if it was executed under the company 's seal . |
| 21 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 22 | Thus an observed value ( Y ) can be modelled ( see Section 4.3 ) as and it is often useful to isolate these components . |
| 23 | To make it easy I like the Jones + Brother punch , as unless it is positioned correctly it wo n't work , so you avoid punching a hole accidentally in the wrong place . |
| 24 | Actually , I guess I would n't want to tell it to anybody , not so much because I 'm ashamed ( I tell myself ) as because it 's private ; one last thing I can hide that 's between me and Andy only , so letting me feel that there is one thing at least in which I 've not betrayed him utterly . |
| 25 | The other reason was that a paternity suit had recently been brought against my opponent by one of the Council office cleaners , which caused a great deal of moral indignation — not so much on the poor woman 's behalf , I 'm afraid , as because it was felt he had ‘ lowered himself ’ . |
| 26 | In particular , attention has been directed to such questions as whether it is being dismantled or whether its frontiers are being narrowed by privatisation . |
| 27 | I may look into the cost , work involved and practicalities of doing it mainly electronically as well as whether it is worth starting it at this stage of the season . |
| 28 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 29 | A total of 446 gave England plenty to do , and as before it was Lamb and Smith who did the bulk of the work . |
| 30 | Er , there were one or two of us , not many we helped the er Communist Party branch proper , in their campaigns for er council elections , er sales of the er of the Daily Worker , as as as it was known er in those days . |