Example sentences of "[noun] as it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book .
2 Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act .
3 I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference .
4 My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold .
5 At the garden centre you can obtain bags of granite chippings that can also be used as decor for the aquarium base , although it is no use where high turnover undergravel filtration is in use as it soon blocks and becomes covered in a blanket of waste matter .
6 But in a sense such criticism misses the point , for Napoleon III and his prefect were well aware of the nature of Parisian society as it then existed and wished to take account of it .
7 Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations .
8 There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now .
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