Example sentences of "as [adv] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 2 | People who see that high training encourages success , as obviously it does for Nissan , will follow the designs and needs of the marketplace and will themselves introduce high training . |
| 3 | But it is not as easy as perhaps it sounds . |
| 4 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 5 | Often as not it has to make several passes through the gravel before all of the suspended matter is finally trapped in the gravel . |
| 6 | I mean , I 'm scared of anything up , they 'll be some conflict and you do get these kind of people in college as well it frightens me |
| 7 | tell me what it means , you 've got some secondary school type words there as well it says has been co-operative and helpful in the classroom . |
| 8 | So it 's it 's an interest thing as well it keeps the interest it changes the emphasis switches the attention makes a break does n't it it just changes er er a natural break that happens and it changes attention . |
| 9 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 10 | She is , of course , a parody of her pale , former Habsburg self , but Gironella 's title , La Reina Negra , suggests a range of different resonances , as indeed it does in English . |
| 11 | A regular pattern of narrow lanes gave a special character to the Shambles at the eastern edge of the market place , as indeed it does today , and narrow street frontages and long gardens and alleys preserved the medieval property divisions of the old burgage plots . |
| 12 | In other words , the preamble may continue to be used as before , as indeed it has . |
| 13 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 14 | Whatever the reasons , discovering why programming might have ‘ failed ’ — as well as why it has succeeded — is all part of the learning process . |
| 15 | A second type of atmospheric pollution is potentially of much greater significance , though as yet it remains the subject of considerable scientific controversy . |
| 16 | That is the real critical project — and as yet it has hardly begun . |
| 17 | But as yet it has not worked . |
| 18 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 19 | As yet it has nothing to offer ICL users who want to retain their VMS look and feels , but BBC president , David Pikcilingis , and director of marketing , Edward Gaudet were in the UK last week to try and convince ICL there is a market for VMS emulation software on the company 's Unix-based hardware — and to lend BBC some DRS machines to port to . |
| 20 | But as yet it has not approved a timetable or set aside funds for construction . |