Example sentences of "as [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 2 | Still it is now part of the larger narrative , and read as that it suggests a period of peaceful coexistence before their final parting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If = .5 , then it is as probable that h is true , given e , as that it is false , since in the calculus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 8 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 9 | She could see a decision path dividing in front of her as plainly as if it was real . |
| 10 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 13 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 14 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 15 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 16 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 17 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 18 | And yet the same claim , when promulgated by Robert Graves , then by Dr Schonfield in The Passover Plot , attracted as much scandal and incredulity as if it had never been broached before . |
| 19 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was resting his huge hand on June 's angled knee as casually as if it were the arm of a chair . |
| 25 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 30 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |