Example sentences of "it [be] as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Take ‘ Alternative Ulster ’ for instance , I wrote that convinced the situation in the North was going to improve and it 's as fucked up as ever .
2 It is as baffling a production enigma as anything in Maclean 's own life .
3 It is as opposed to quality .
4 It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life .
5 The way to do it is as follows .
6 It is as follows : Simon Rattle is conducting the CBSO , soloist and choirs in Mahler 's Third Symphony in a live concert in Symphony Hall , Birmingham or in the Royal Concert Hall , Nottingham .
7 It is as follows : Group A : Hong Kong , Poland , Argentina , Nigeria ; Group B : Holland , Iran , Paraguay , Italy ; Group C : Brazil , Australia , Costa Rica Europe ( ! ) ;
8 But the paradox goes like this — I mean any form of it is as follows : proteins , as most of you know , are strings of amino acids and we make a whole series of quite specific proteins .
9 It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect .
10 Whilst metalpoint drawings survive in their own right , it was as underdrawing for egg tempera painting towards the end of the 16th century , and the rise of oil painting , demanding more flexible underpainting , the use of metalpoint lessened .
11 The affair was reported at length by A. Hollington in the local newspaper , the Advertiser and Times , earlier this year , but the essence of it was as follows .
12 It was as follows : A Briton Speaks ( Lines written in exile in 1944 )
13 It was as follows :
14 It was as imposing an edifice as she 'd ever seen .
15 The snow on the path in front of us was flawless ; behind , it was as churned up as a freshly-harrowed field .
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