Example sentences of "as it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also ideal around new window or door frames , as it both seals the gaps and locks the frame very firmly in place . |
| 2 | Throughout the preparation days you will be establishing a baseline record of your eating and exercise behaviour as it normally occurs . |
| 3 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 4 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 5 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |
| 6 | This budget is extremely useful for management as it clearly sets out the short-term objectives and targets for the forthcoming budget period and is in a form that is easy to comprehend . |
| 7 | ‘ Harmonisation ’ does not mean , as it clearly should , that all competing alcoholic drinks should be treated on the same basis . |
| 8 | Unless one school was created as rapidly as it honestly could be , then the corrosive uncertainty would spread , tentative plans would proliferate but never come to fruition . |
| 9 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 10 | Within this regime , as it already existed by the end of the Civil War , the salient features were the prominent , but in no sense governing role of the FET ; the restoration of the Catholic Church to a position of monopoly in education and of powerful cultural influence ; the ruthless repression of all forms of opposition ; and above all , the unassailable position and total dominance of Franco himself . |
| 11 | We can not all , as it already been emphasised by the last speaker we may not all be able to do the same things we have not all got the same gifts or the same responsibilities er within the church but you all have the same responsibilities in this light of God . |
| 12 | Now , we have a balance as it already tells you er , in er earlier in the paragraph of this paper that that we had a er balance of sixteen thousand pounds a , in the ministry last year so , if we knock sixteen thousand pounds |
| 13 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 14 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 15 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 16 | This strategy , NEC insists , produces greater flexibility ( as it is not necessary to follow IBM slavishly ) and also keeps the company on a smoother footing as it no longer needs to follow IBM 's every turn . |
| 17 | That is only a part of life , and as it no longer concerns us , why should it hold us together ? |
| 18 | The surface of ceramic wall tiles is no longer always highly glazed , as it traditionally was . |
| 19 | Similarly , for those who are impressed with the low level of industrial conflict characteristic of the Swedish industrial relations system as it traditionally operated , she points to the significance of broader influences . |
| 20 | But My Lords the next question is should the membership of the Authority be as it traditionally has been or should it contain some members recruited from a wider constituency . |
| 21 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 22 | You know , nothing a very pleasant picture er o of a couple of horses , very attractive horses , but if you 're not a a horse enthusiast perhaps it has n't got quite the same impact , er , as it otherwise would have . |
| 23 | Thus on the mat is a semantic constituent of the cat sat on the mat , but not a minimal one , as it ultimately divides further into the , on and mat ; the latter , on the other hand , are incapable of further subdivision , and are therefore minimal semantic constituents . |
| 24 | In the process of examining how routine policing is affected by social divisions , researchers may , however , obtain some direct and first-hand impression of public order policing , if only unsatisfactorily as it briefly or infrequently enters their research location . |
| 25 | God alone can guarantee that the moral desires of humanity are satisfied — for instance , by providing a life after death in which happiness can be proportioned to virtue , as it patently is not in this life . |
| 26 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 27 | This openness is fundamental to the total quality culture that the Quality Scotland Foundation espouses as it firmly believes that , by bringing together people with expertise in the quality field to help and advise those who wish to make a commitment to it , attitudes can really begin to change . |
| 28 | For Sartre 's singular universal could never be expected to solve the formal theoretical problem of how individual existential existence can be related to History insofar as it simply renames , in one oxymoronic category , the original antithetical terms . |
| 29 | End gain presents a problem , as it simply does n't glue effectively unless worked to a smooth finish , which is impractical in this type of situation . |
| 30 | However , this is scant comfort as it simply brings the dates for payment of tax by the self employed such as partners on to a more current basis similar to that applicable to companies and PAYE employees . |