Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 2 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 3 | I do n't say as good as we get it at the Club " — there was still a spark of spirit left in him — " but decidedly good . " |
| 4 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 5 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 6 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
| 7 | She knew that , as long as she applied it with care , she had great power over Bernard . |
| 8 | The training of nurses to prescribe will be vital if the service is to be as widely available as we want it to be and if it is genuinely to benefit patients . |
| 9 | That 's the fundamental as far as I see it of a pension fund . |
| 10 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 11 | For some philosophers of religion , it is this attitude towards morality , inbuilt as they see it into human beings , that makes theism necessary . |
| 12 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 13 | So it 's not the six thousand figure , that that 's not really relevant as I see it to the debate about the forecast because that was simply a partial opening the bypass . |
| 14 | The question we must now turn to is : can one of the subsidiary arguments for the justification of authority supplement the main argument and show that at least the authority of relatively just governments is as wide as they claim it to be ? |
| 15 | And after a day as peaceful or energetic as you wanted it to be , there 's an evening of good company and good food to enjoy . |
| 16 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 17 | He replies : It 's as intense as you want it to be . |