Example sentences of "[adj] as it [is] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 2 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 3 | There is no particular order in which to introduce them as long as it is done reasonably slowly . |
| 4 | And we lack provisions that allows for a presidency in the absence of a minister is a good one as long as it is monitored closely by district council . |
| 5 | " Well , as long as it 's put back where you found it . |
| 6 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 7 | Life is not as glamorous as it is cracked up to be on Tour . |
| 8 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |