Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it 's [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We 've looked very closely at fire safety as it 's currently existing , and within out current statutory and discretionary responsibilities .
2 It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down .
3 So that would make erm er five one six five as a married man 's or a married couple 's allowance as it 's now called , plus the three four four five .
4 Over the last five summers the Amarilis has become one of our favourites which is no surprise as it 's ideally located , less the five minutes walk from the nightlife and 170 metres from the beach .
5 And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced .
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